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Trictcrjcus, Greek, p. 117). Apollo, whoin we haveseen is likewise identified with Nimrod, is addressed inthe Orphrc Hymns, as the "Two-horned god" (Hymnto APoUo). The companions of Bacchus were callefSatyrs, and are said to have "danced along with him(Elian Hist., p. 22). The Satyrs were horned gods ;and knowing the identity of Bacchus, it is easy tosee that his companions the Satyrs were really the"mighty ones over whom Nimrod was lord. It isgenerally agreed that the god Pan was the head of theSatyrs. Now, Satyr is just another,!orm of the wordSatur or Saturn-"the Hidden one. Pan was thereforethe flrst of the Satyrs or hidden ones. WhenNimrod or Osiris was put to a violent death as theresult of the judicial condemnation of the 72 leadingmen, it produced great terror among his followers whoimmediately hid themselves, hence the derivation ofthe word pan-ic,-extreme or sudden fright. Referringto the effect which the slaying of Osiris by Typho(Seth or Shem) had upon his followers, Plutarch says :**The first who knew the accident that had befallentheir king, were the Pans or Satyrs who lived aboutChemmis ; and they, immediately acquainting thepeople of the news, gave the flrst occasion to thename of Panic Terrors '' (dc Zsid. S. 13).Devll Worshlp.It is from tlie name Kron~that the English word" Crown " is derived ; and the familiar spiked crownwhich adorns the heads of European monarchs stillconveys the idea of the horns of the ancientEastern kings. Plutarcli says that "the Romanslooked upon I