The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 56
deep, and toJifi^ desolate, correspond tothe Assyrian Tiamtu (= Tianiat). Our excavators have not as yet found a report of thefall of man and of the serpent that seduced Adam and Eve to taste the fruit ofthe tree of life. Thereis, however, a great prob-ability that some similarlegend existed, as we… … Sacred Tree and Serpent.From an ancient Babylonian cylinder.After Smith.—Sayce (Z,. c, p. 88.) 36 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. their artists do not tire of depicting it in every form. Itmay date back to that remote period when the fruits of
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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