The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . cer of the disobedient, the exterminatorof rebels, be whose sword is good, • In manyrespects he bears a close resemblance to Nergal orMars. Like him, he is a god of battle and of thechace, presiding over the kings expeditions, whetherfor war or hunting, and giving success in both the same time he has qualities which seemwlioUy unconnected with any that have been hithertomentioned. He is the true Fish-Grod of Berosus,and is figured as suc
The five great monarchies of the ancient eastern world; or, The history, geography, and antiquites of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, and Persia . cer of the disobedient, the exterminatorof rebels, be whose sword is good, • In manyrespects he bears a close resemblance to Nergal orMars. Like him, he is a god of battle and of thechace, presiding over the kings expeditions, whetherfor war or hunting, and giving success in both the same time he has qualities which seemwlioUy unconnected with any that have been hithertomentioned. He is the true Fish-Grod of Berosus,and is figured as such inthe sculptures. In thispoint of view he is called the god of the sea, hewho dwells in the deep,and again, somewhat curi-ously, the opener of aque-ducts. Besides these epi-thets he has many of amore general character, as the powerful chief, thesupreme, the first of thegods, the favourite ofthe gods, the chief ofthe spirits, and the , he has a set of epi-thets, which seem to pointto his stellar character,very difficult to reconcilewith the notion, that, as a celestial luminary, he wasSaturn. We find him called the light of heaven. Figure of >.in, the Fisli-Goii. ^ Fr. 1, § 3. To fxev o\ov aS^a I kutch rijs tov Ixdvos /cf0«X^y, koie^ov L)(6tios., VTTo he. ti)v KffpoXijv I TTohas ojjioiios dvOpconov, Tvapairtdiv-TrapaTr€,- ovpas tov lx^9voi. 168 THE FIRST MONARCHY. Chap. VII. and earth, he who, like the sun, the light of thegods, irradiates the nations. These phrases ap-pear to point to the Moon,or to some very brilliantstar, and are scarcely re-concilable with the notionthat he was the dark anddistant Saturn. Nins emblem in As-syria is the Man-Bull, theimpersonation of strengthand power. He guardsthe palaces of the Assyriankings, who reckon himtheir tutelary god, and givehis name to their capitalcity. We may conjecturethat in Babylonia hisemblem was the sacredfish, which is often seenunder different forms upon
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