Note 187.3 — Chapter X · The Concept of Divine Power and the Ancient Cosmogonies.

As for the artificial group of the twelve Olympians, we should certainly have been tempted to connect this with Babylonian lore, the number twelve being of importance in astronomical numeration; only that the divine group of twelve does not happen to occur in Babylonian religious records at all. Nor does the complex cult of the Δώδεκα θεοί appear to belong to the earliest period of Greek religion.187.3 And so far I have been able to discern nothing that justifies the suggestion187.4 that the principle of unification or divine grouping in early Mediterranean polytheism came from Babylon.