Gods and devils of mankind : the whole dark picture strikingly contrasted with the beauty and purity of revealed religion / by Frank S. Dobbins ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams (1897)
Dobbins, Frank S. (Frank Stockton), 1855-1916 · [S.l.] · leaf 128
bol ofpower. But this god took many other secondary forms,the most important being Bel Dagon, a human bustspringing from the body of a fish. We do not knowexactly the typical figure of Ao or Bin, the intelligent WORSHIP OF THE CHALDEANS. I29 guide, the Lord ofthe visible world, theLord of… … vague and indeter-minate in character,like those of the first,but with a clearly-defined siderial as-pect, each represent-ing a known celestialbody, and especiallythose in which theC h al d ae o-Assyrianssaw the most strikingexternal manifesta-tions of the deity;these were Shamash,the sun; Sin,…
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