. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . The Chaldean Trinity Blessing the The Goddess Anna. Tree of Life (Bas-relief in the British Museum. Le- (British Museum. Lenormant, V., p. 234.) normant, V., p. 259.) Bel-Merodach is one of the great trinity of Ann, Ea,and Bel, which on an ancient cylinder is pictured ashovering above the tree of life before which two humanforms, apparent!} king and queen, are seen in an atti-tude of adoration. The Babylonian trinity was thought to be male and ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. 41 female, and it is notewort
. The history of the devil and the idea of evil; from the earliest times to the present day . The Chaldean Trinity Blessing the The Goddess Anna. Tree of Life (Bas-relief in the British Museum. Le- (British Museum. Lenormant, V., p. 234.) normant, V., p. 259.) Bel-Merodach is one of the great trinity of Ann, Ea,and Bel, which on an ancient cylinder is pictured ashovering above the tree of life before which two humanforms, apparent!} king and queen, are seen in an atti-tude of adoration. The Babylonian trinity was thought to be male and ACCAD AND THE EARLY SEMITES. 41 female, and it is noteworthy that the female representa-tive of the divine father Ann, the god-mother Anna, alsocalled Istar, was worshipped under the symbol of a dove,which in a purer and nobler form reappears in Christian-ity as an emblem of most significant spirituality. Bel-Merodach is the Christ of the Babylonians, forhe is spoken of as the son of the god Ea, the personifica-tion of all knowledge and wisdom. Professor Budge says :
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