WATER.

Old Nick-a common English name for the Devil.

LNikke

-a Norse and Dutch sea-demon-"The Flying Dutch"2 man.'

-Nixy- -a diminutive water-demon.

- Kelpie—a water-horse carrying away and devouring the
unwary (Scotland).

Merman—a spirit living under the sea.
Riverman-an elf, frequenting rivers.

Scratch- —a common name for the Devil.

Skratti" the roarer," an Icelandic storm demon.

SUN-RAYS-GOD'S MESSENGERS.

Lucifer "light-bearing"-the day-star, which fell from heaven (Isaiah)—a typical devil (Milton).

Merodach-servant or messenger of the gods-guide of the dead in Hades-a mediator-conqueror of the dragon (Babylonian).

- Marduk-the same.

—— Silik-muludug—the Accadian Marduk.

Mercury-messenger of the gods-conductor of souls in the infernal regions-patron of dishonesty and trickery (Latin).

Hermes-the Greek Mercury.

-St. Michael-an archangel (chief messenger) of Jehovah—the conqueror of Satan (Revelations)-a mediator (Origen).

Messenger of the Gods-the rays of the sun

descending from heaven to earth and

penetrating into the darkness of Hades and there constituting a guide.

CALAMITIES.

Storms-personified as Rudra, "the roarer" (Vedic), Vayu, the wind-god (Vedic), Vul and Rimmon, the air-god (Assyrian).

Loka-phayu, angels of tempests (Buddhist). Maruts, storm-gods (Vedic), &c.

Drought-personified as Typhon, the fiery wind (Greek), Azazel, the desert (Moslem), the scape-goat (Hebrew), &c. Pestilence-personified as Namtar, the plague-demon (Chaldean), and many other forms of disease-demons-and also destroying angels.

Famine-all natural obstacles to the procuring of food.

PRIMEVAL GODS.

Kronos-the god of the Golden Age-the harvest god-and of the products of the fruitful earth-the devourer of his children (Greek).

Moloch-the god of the Phoenicians—often identified with Kronos— to whom were made human sacrifices, particularly children. Chemosh-the Moabite counterpart of Moloch-also identified with the Syrian Baal.

Baal-"Lord," the generic name for the principal god of the

Canaanite and Phoenician worship—including Moloch, &c. Bes-an early Egyptian deity-with brutal and slaughtering attributes-referable to an early stage of earth-worship. Artemis-the Diana of the Ephesians-older than Greek mythology, and originally the residing spirit of an aërolite-a nature goddess of fertility, requiring human sacrifices. Saturn-the god of the Golden Age—the harvest god, and of fertility (Roman).

Set-the national god of the Hykshos dynasties in Egypt, the shepherd kings from Syria-afterwards the Egyptian personification of evil.

-Seth—the son of Adam—by some identified as the original

of Set.

Aalu, 145

Abaddon, 6n, 160, 244
Abaii quoted, 36

Abba Benyamin quoted, 36

Abel, 100, 110, 185
Abishai, a Satan, 18
Aborigines, 31, 219, 237

Abraham, 21, 108, 110

Abyss, the, 223, 240
Vedic, 206
Eddaic, 206

Abzu, 109, 240
Accadian legends, 52

Hades, 137, 155

Accadians, 77, 105
and fire, 170

Accuser, 16

Achish and David, 18

Adam's first wife, 100

Adonai, 173

INDEX.

Adonis, 121, 124, 173, 174, 243

Adversary, 16, 17

Aerolite, fetish, 117

Aëshma-daëva, 187, 241

Africa, manes worship, 43

Affiliated gods, 107

Age, golden, 98

Agni, 170

Agriculture, 98

Ahi, 200, 240

187

Ancestors, worship of, 118
Ancestral demons, 33
spirits, 34, 43

Andamans, 44, 82, 219
Angel and Balaam, 17
of light, 27

Angels, 21, 24, 35, 88, 129
assisting, 21
destroying, 21
of pestilence, 21
of Satan, 27
guardian, 34, 68
number of, 35
fallen, 57

(messengers), 88
and fire, 171

Animals, fetish, 117
Animism, 32, 94, 113
Tylor's 42

Anra-mainyu (Ahriman) 23, 187,

242

Anthropomorphism, 204
Anticlea, 116
Anu, 109

Apes and man, 221

Apocalypse, 151, 171
Apollo, 58, 173, 243

Apollyon, 6n, 58, 160, 214, 244

Apophis, 200, 240

Appearances of angels, 21

Ahura-mazdu (Ormuzd) 24, 66, Archangels, 66