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4*6 The Golden Age for MQ 11, 192~ : A' -..-- ..-..--.-" .---I-.-established, the worship of many more was sure The ivy, so conspicnons in all Bacchanalianto follow.oelebrations, was an express symbol of Nimrod.In this way, Nimrod became the "father of the The Greek word for ivy is '~ssosJ'; and Kissosgods", being said to be the of "deified was one of the titles of Bacchus. (Panssniaa,mortals". As such he was worshiped under the Attica, cap. 31, p. 78) Now, the name of thetitles of Gonos and Saturn. Saturn waa thR desaendants of hsh was pronounced in &WO@ .god of Uysteries, the name itself signifying "Kissioi". (Strabo, lib. XV, p. 691) The iv ."the Hidden One". He was reveded to the branch carried by the votaries of Bacchus, the* ,initiated, but hidden to dl others.fore, signified to the initiated that Bacchus warthe "branch of Cash"-that is, Nimrod, the sonIdentity of the Greek God Bacchw of hh. This also accounts for om of the tifJesbother of the names under which the deified of the Greek god Apollo-"Kissens Apollon".Nimrod received honor was Bacchus. In Greece, It serves to identify Apollo with Nimrod (amongBacchus was symbolically represented by 8 other pronfa), meaning literally "The Cushite 'ppotted fawn, which animal was intended in the Apollo''.figurative language of the Mysteries to covertly ' From Anaoreon (p. 296) we learn that anidentifyBacchus with Ximrod. The name of the other of the titles of Bacchus was "Aithiopais",fawn in Greece was Tebros", meaning literally which means "the son of lEthiopsy'. We haw"the spotted one"; while the name of Nimrod, as already pointed out that the Ethiopian8 wereknown to the Greeks, .was "Nebrod", and is so descendants of Cush, and therefore rEthiupstranslated in the Greek translation of the must have been Cnsh himself. (See the marginalHebrew Scriptures-i. e., the Septuugint. It reading of Habakkuk 3 : 7)will be remembered that Nimrod gained much The literal meaning of the word Bacchus isof his success , as a hunter by training the "the lamented one", being derived from Bakhahleopard to assist him in the chase. The skin of "to weep9'or 'lament". Hesychius (p. 179) saysthe fawn was intended to suggest the spotted that among the Phenicians 9acchos mean4 .leopard. The custom of wearing the skin of weeping". The Hebrew word used in the Biblea fawn appeared to have been imported from for weeping and lamenting is Baua, or Bakah.Assyria clirect ; for some sculptures excavated (See Psalm 84: 6, where the word Baca appearsin Nineveh show a god bearing a spotted fawn untranslated-"valley of Baca" should readin his arm, in such a way as to indicate that the '%alley of' weeping") On certain mystic Baoanimalis to be ,regarded as a symbol. (Vanx's chanalian festivals a spotted fawn was torn inNineveh md Persepolis, chap. viii, p. 233) pieces, and great lamentations were mads.Leopards were employed to draw the car of Photins tells us the significance of this cere-Bacchus ; and he himself is represented clothed mony: "The tearing in pieces of the nebroi [orwith a leopard's skin, as were also his priests, spotted fawns] was an imitation of the sufferingalthongh sometimes the skin of the fawn was in the case of Dionysus" or Bacchns. (Photins,substituted.Laxiom, pars. I, p. 291) Thus the great larnen-The Greek Bacchus and his priesthood, them tations which followed the violent death offore, were in this respect similar to the Egypt- Nimrod (Nebrod), when his body was torn intoian Osiris and priesthood. Herodotns, the father fourteen pieces by the judges of Egypt, wasof history, always speaks of Osiris aa being annually commemorated by the various natio&Bacc1:us (lib. 11, cap. 42), and so also does The backsliding women of Israel wept forDiodo,rus, who says: "Orphens introduced from the death of the false Messiah under the nameEgqpt"the greatest part @f the mystical cere- of Tamrnnz, in memory of the wailing of Semimonies,the orgies that celebrate the wanderings ramis for the death of Nimrod. Ezekiel 8: 1S,14,of Ceres. and the ~vhole fable of the shades reads: "Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt ssebelow. The rites of Osiris and Bacchus are the greater abominations that they do. Then hesame; tllwe 4' Isis mid Ceres exactly resemble brought me to the gate of the Lord's houseeach other, esccpt in name." (Bibliotl~eca, lib.1, which was toward the north; and, behold, thereb. 9) This is an acl(litiona1 proof that Bacchus sat women weeping for Tammaz." It is signnclSinirod are the Silnle; for we have seen that nificant that these wmen sat at the north gate,Osiris \\-as Simrocl. - --.... -- - the same place as the seat of the "image ofF41.. 1?