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Jews who had forsaheu tl~e Lord were worsliippingDagon, and were leaping over the thresllolcl in defferenceto him! Berosus, describing this Ash-god, saysthat "its body was that of a Ash, but under the headof the Ash was that of a man, and to itb tail werejoilled a woman's feet (Cory's frag., p. 30). FmmLayard's sculptures we notice that the Agure had alsohands. Now, what could have suggested such apeculiar combination of man and Ash ? And whatCould have induced the Babylonians to set up sostrange an object in a temple to worship as a god ?When we remember that an image is a hieroglyphic,that every feature of it is intended to convey to thebeholder some message, or suggest some attributeconcerning the god whom the image represents, wecan perceive that this fish-god described a man whohad been in some respects like a fish. It appears thatnot only were Nimrod and Semiramis raised to thestatus of god and goddess in the Mysteries, but that asFather (Kronos) and Mother (Rhea) of the gods, theywere the forerunners of numerous other "deifiedmortals."The fish-god Dagon could not have representedanyone more perfectly than Ham (or possibly Noah),for did not this man live through the waters of theflood which destroyed all " in whose nostrils was thebreath of life"? In this respect, then, he was like aAsh, because we do not read that Ash were destroyedin the deluge (Gen. 7 : 21, 22). Without doubt this isthe origin d that mythical creature called the mermaidand the merman.The great apostate church of the Gospel Age, trueto its Babylonish origin, has actually adopted thisAsh-got1 in its ritual ; for the pope on certain occnsionsmallifests by his head-pear that he is the direct rc-