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The Sea-Centaurs were probably derived from the divine Fish of Syrian mythology which carried Ashtarte ashore following her watery-birth. These w ...oves, considering them as gods. [N.B. These fish appear to be the original Syrian :form of the late classical Ikhthyokentauroi]."

Cornelius Agrippa wrote: "Pherecydes the Syrian describeth the fall of the devils, and that Ophis, that is the devilish ser

...word is assumed to derive from Late Latin 'mammon', from Greek 'μαμμωνάς', Syrian 'mámóna' (riches), Aramaic 'mamon' (riches), probably from Mishnaic Hebre ...n is the name of a devil, by which name riches are called according to the Syrian tongue." Piers Plowman also regards Mammon as a deity. Nicholas de Lyra (co

...archaeological digs at Ras Shamra and Ebla uncovered texts explaining the Syrian pantheon, the demon Ba‘al Zebûb was frequently confused with those vario

...to Mecca to see his family there, and take him back in the evening to his Syrian wife.

...ury CE) in ''De Dea Syria'' ("Concerning the Syrian Goddess") wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited: ...yria1.html The mermaid goddess Derketo] from Lucian of Samosata's ''On the Syrian God'' (2c. AD)

*[[Rimmon]] ([[Syrian]] demonology)

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...98). In the Pahlavi translation of the Indian story as represented by the Syrian Kalilag and Damnag (ed. Gustav Bickell, 1876), the simurgh takes the place

...archaeological digs at Ras Shamra and Ebla uncovered texts explaining the Syrian pantheon, the demon Ba‘al Zebûb was frequently confused with various Sem

...that the reported big cats are what the Ancient Greeks, in particular the Syrian Neoplatonist Iamblichus (died AD 326), defined as daimones or in English 'd

...ng the probability of influences from the Murcian mystic Ibn Arabi and the Syrian Abul ‘Ala al Ma’ari, which are consistent in Palacios work Gabrieli rec