, 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;