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 65
) gyji spirits. The monuments of Chaldea prove the existence of an extremely complex demonologythe exact gradation of which is not yet sufficiently known. Concerning the Devil of the disease - engenderingsouthwest wind Lenormant says {ibid. V., p. 212) : The Louvre possesses the image of a horrible… … ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. 45 suspend the figure. On the back of the statue is the inscriptionin sumero-accadian, indicating that it represents the demon of thesouthwest wind and that it should be placed at the door or the win-dow for the sake of warding off his injurious influence. The south-
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