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Jews) to become affected by the mythological dramas of their neigh- 

 bours ; and, in carefully examining the mythical records of their tribe, 

 \ve find that they very soon became acquainted with, and in some cases 

 offered worship to, almost all the purely Semitic and Chaldean, as well 

 as to a few of the Egyptian, deities. Their principal god always 

 remained as before, El (^v$) signifying the zodiacal sign Aries, the 

 heavenly ram and first of the twelve zodiacal figures. Combined with 

 Yah (PP), the abbreviation of Yahouh (PHPP), their tribal deity, it 

 formed a compound word, Eloh (nV*?^)> or Elyah (pp?N tn ^ 1 and ** 

 being interchangeable), the plural of which was Elohim (C3ipT/fc$)> a 

 word used frequently in the Bible to signify the supreme God. Bearing 

 in mind the fact that the fables of the Bible are not actual history, but 

 merely so many accounts of the ever-recurring phenomena of the sidereal 

 heavens, and that in the various saviour myths the vernal equinoxial 

 sign, or saviour sign, Aries, was looked upon as the supreme god, who 

 housed the new-born sun on his first appearance in the upper world, 

 just as in the present day the song of praise on Easterday is " Worthy 

 is the lamb who was slain (crucified) to receive the power and bring 

 back salvation to the world," the meanings of these names of the 

 supreme deity become apparent at once. All the words and, in fact, 

 almost every divine name found in every divine record signify the sun 

 in one or other of the divisions of his annual or daily apparent march, 

 or else one of the divisions itself. El signifies the first and saviour sign of 

 the zodiac, the celestial ram, and is always used when the winter period 

 is referred to, because from the autumnal to the vernal equinox the sun- 

 god, Yahouh, is separated from the ram, El, which remains god of the 

 lower world, until again united with its spouse, the sun, at the vernal 

 equinox, becoming the ram-sun-god, El- Yah or Eloh, whose plural is 

 Elohim, the ram-sun-gods, from the vernal to the autumnal equinox, 

 when the sun and Aries are together for six months. At a later time, 

 when the old Bacchus worship was revived at Alexandria in the person 

 of the young Semitic Yahoshua, who was named lesous, we have a good 

 illustration of this when the sun-god, in his agony at being separated 

 from the ram at the autumnal equinox or crucifixion, exclaimed: "Eloi, 

 Eloi, lama sabachthani ?" " My ram, my ram, why hast thou forsaken 

 me?" In, I believe, every instance in which the plural word, Elohim, 

 is used in the Bible the reference is to the summer half of the year, 

 from the vernal to the autumnal equinox, when El and Yah are toge- 

 ther. We meet with El in its Babylonian form, Bel j in its Aramaean 

 forms, Bel and Belus ; and in its Phenician form, Baal frequently in 

 the Bible, and often in combination with other deities, as El-Shaddai 

 and Bel-Shaddai Onu^^Q), signifying the " breasted ram," or the ram 



