[367] Isaiah, xiii, 21.  For “Satyrs” the Revised Version gives the alternative translation, “or he-goats”.

[368] Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria, p. 120, plate 18 and note.

[369] Satapatha Brahmana, translated by Professor Eggeling, part iv, 1897, p. 371. (Sacred Books of the East.)

[370] Egyptian Myth and Legend, pp. 165 et seq.

[371] Classic Myth and Legend, p. 105.  The birds were called “Stymphalides”.

[372] The so-called “shuttle” of Neith may be a thunderbolt.  Scotland’s archaic thunder deity is a goddess.  The bow and arrows suggest a lightning goddess who was a deity of war because she was a deity of fertility.

[373] Vedic Index, Macdonell & Keith, vol. ii, pp. 125-6, and vol. i, 168-9.

[374] Ezekiel, xxxi, 3-8.

[375] Ezekiel, xxvii, 23, 24.

[376] Isaiah, xxxvii, 11.

[377] Ibid., x, 5, 6.

[378] A winged human figure, carrying in one hand a basket and in another a fir cone.

[379] Layard’s Nineveh (1856), p. 44.

[380] Ibid., p. 309.

[381] The fir cone was offered to Attis and Mithra.  Its association with Ashur suggests that the great Assyrian deity resembled the gods of corn and trees and fertility.

[382] Nineveh, p. 47.

[383] Isaiah, xxxvii, 37-8.

[384] The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, pp. 129-30.

[385] An eclipse of the sun in Assyria on June 15, 763 B.C., was followed by an outbreak of civil war.

[386] Ezekiel, i, 4-14.

[387] Ezekiel, xxiii, 1-15.

[388] As the soul of the Egyptian god was in the sun disk or sun egg.

[389] Ezekiel, i, 15-28.

[390] Ezekiel, x, 11-5.

[391] Also called “Amrita”.

[392] The Mahabharata (Adi Parva), Sections xxxiii-iv.

[393] Another way of spelling the Turkish name which signifies “village of the pass”.  The deep “gh” guttural is not usually attempted by English speakers.  A common rendering is “Bog-haz’ Kay-ee”, a slight “oo” sound being given to the “a” in “Kay”; the “z” sound is hard and hissing.

[394] The Land of the Hittites, J. Garstang, pp. 178 et seq.

[395] Ibid., p. 173.

[396] Adonis, Attis, Osiris, chaps. v and vi.

[397] Daniel, iii, 1-26.

[398] The story that Abraham hung an axe round the neck of Baal after destroying the other idols is of Jewish origin.

[399] The Koran, George Sale, pp. 245-6.

[400] Isaiah, xxx, 31-3.  See also for Tophet customs 2 Kings, xxiii, 10; Jeremiah, vii, 31, 32 and xix, 5-12.