. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. 45 suspend the figtire. 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. Tin. soutli-. NiRGALLI. Lion-headed and eagle-claw-footed demons. (British Museum. After Lenor-mant, /. c , V-, p. 204.) west wind in Chaldea comes from the deserts of Arabia, and itsburning breath parches everything, p
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. 45 suspend the figtire. 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. Tin. soutli-. NiRGALLI. Lion-headed and eagle-claw-footed demons. (British Museum. After Lenor-mant, /. c , V-, p. 204.) west wind in Chaldea comes from the deserts of Arabia, and itsburning breath parches everything, producing the same ravages asthe khamsin in Syria and the simoon in Africa. The Nirgalli are described by the same scholar asfollows {ibid, v., p. 215) : 46 THE HISTORY OF THE DE\IL. At Kuyunjik, in tlie palace of Asurbanipal, we see in severalcorners a series of monsters with human bodies, lions heads, andeagles feet. They appear in groups of two, combating one an-other with daggers and clubs. They, too. are demons and expressin the language of the sculptor the formula so frequently met with W^
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