. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . rers of the living,(for) the dead exceed the living. There is another name for Hades, the signs wliicli form itmeaning the house of the land of the dead. A gloss gives its pro-nunciation as Arali. Such, then, is the Babylonian hell. It is diffi-cult to say where they imagined their Hades to be, but it has beenconjectured by some that they thought it to be in the west. Besides Tiamat there were in Assyrian and Baby-lonian mythology innumerable demons whose names areknown through the inscrip-tions and w
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . rers of the living,(for) the dead exceed the living. There is another name for Hades, the signs wliicli form itmeaning the house of the land of the dead. A gloss gives its pro-nunciation as Arali. Such, then, is the Babylonian hell. It is diffi-cult to say where they imagined their Hades to be, but it has beenconjectured by some that they thought it to be in the west. Besides Tiamat there were in Assyrian and Baby-lonian mythology innumerable demons whose names areknown through the inscrip-tions and whose portraitsare preserved on statues,bas-reliefs, and magic formulae whichwere employed to ward offtheir influence are alwa3suttered seven times in theSumero-Accadian languagewhich was deemed moresacred on account of itsage, for it had become un-intelligible for the commonpeople and remained in useonly for liturgic Assyrians expected tofrighten demons away byshowing them their own shape and by exhorting themto destroy themselves mutually in an internecine com-. EviL Demons.(From a Chaldean stele in the BritishMuseum. After Lenormant.) 44 THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL. bat. Lenormant briefly sets forth the demonology of theAssyrians Histoire aiicicinie dc POrient, V., page 494. In tlie army of the Good as well as in the army of Evil,there obtains a hierarchical system of more or less powerful spiritsaccording to their rank. The texts mention the ekim and the telal or warrior ; the maskin or trapper ;the alal or destro3er ; the labartu,the labassu, the ahharu, kind ofghosts, phantoms, and the tiias, the lamina, andthe iituq are quoted ; and a distinc-tion is made between the good andthe evil iiias, the good and the evillamtna, the good and the evil are also the alapi or wingedbulls, the nirgalii or winged lions,and the innimierable kinds of heav-enly archangels. The gods Annaand Ea, called the spirit of heaven{zi an fia) and
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