332 On Scriptural and profane Accounts 
Lloyd Dict. Poet. on which we may observe, that Mars 
and Hercules were identified by the Chaldeans, and that 
Ninus, being worshipped as Hercules, was the same with 
Mars. “ Chaldzi quoque stellam Herculis vocant quam 
reliqui omnes Martis appellant.” Macrobius. Sat. 111. 12. 
Of Ninyas, we are told that he was deified and worshipped 
as the god Mars. “ Assyriis regnavit tertius Zameis, qui 
& Ninyas, filius Nini & Semiramidis.’” Euseb. Chron. 
p-10. Mera de Nuvoy Pacirevoey Acoupiwy Oxppas ovomars svrivee 
peTwvomacey 6 tate matnp Lawns, ex tns Peas adeAQos, Apter, 
tis ovome TH WAowmTos asepos—The author goes on to say, 
that to this Mars the Assyrians first raised a column and 
worshipped him as a god, calling him faar S05. The 
name @zppas is Greek, and an epithet of Mars. @xpos Apns 
Eur. Suppl. 579. . According to Eusebius, the next king 
to Ninyas was Arius ji, e. Aptos, which is again only an 
epithet of his supposed predecessor, changed into a king. 
It is then one and the same divinity who re-appears to us 
in)the persons of Belus, Ninus and Ninyas, the great god 
of, the Assyrians, the sun, worshipped more especially as 
the god of war, the two latter names being in all probability 
inyented to account for, the name of the city. Josephus 
(Ant. 1.—4) from Hestizeus represents the great divinity 
of the Assyrians as Zeus Ewaasws i. e. Jupiter-Mars. Se- 
miramis was Rhea, Tny_ OE Lepspopery xo Peay exadsy, Suid. 
in voc... Of Sardanapallus I shall speak hereafter. 
(2). See Anc. Univ. Hist. rv. 353, 361. 
(*°) . The.earth was the Cybele of the Phrygians, the 
Rhea: of the Greeks, the Latins worshipped her by the 
name Tellus, the Hertha of the Germans is obviously the 
same ; the Egyptian Isis among her various characters 
was, also the earth, and the same personification is found in 
Hinda theology. 
(7*). “Le grand ouvrag e de la geénération s’ opére par 
Vaction du soleil premicrement & seeondairement par cellede 
