
tongues had scattered the early descendants of Noah over the earth. Trogus Pompeius, who
wrote of Ninus, states that the first King of Nineveh caused the people to war against
themselves. Alexander Hislop compiled this statement written by Trogus Pompeius, the
ancient historian, in his book The Two Babylons, p. 23:
" 'Ninus, king of Assyrians,' says Trogus Pompeius epitomized by Justin, 'first of all
changed the contented moderation of the ancient manners, incited by a new passion, the desire
of conquest. He was the first who carried on war against his neighbours and he conquered all
nations from Assyria to Lybia, as they were yet unacquainted with the arts of war.'"
Hislop goes on to quote another ancient historian named Diodorus Siculus and shows how
Trogus Pompeius and Siculus both agree with each other.
" 'Ninus, the most ancient of the Assyrian kings mentioned in history, performed great
actions. Being naturally of a warlike disposition, and ambitious of glory that results from
valeur, he armed a considerable number of young men that were brave and vigorous like
himself, trained them up a long time in laborious exercises and hardships, and by that means
accustomed them to bear the fatigues of war, and to face dangers with intrepidity.' " Loizeaux
Brothers, Neptune, NJ, 1916.
Hence, Nimrod (Ninus) was celebrated at Nineveh, which he built, as a War-god, and his
epics as a hunter, a warrior, and his death were later imitated in the Assyrian, Babylonian,
Egyptian, Greek, Roman and American Indian Mysteries. His Egyptian name was Osiris[7].
To the Romans, he was also worshipped as Mars (which means "The Rebel"), from which ou
name March was derived. He was Zernebogus to the Anglo-Saxon, which means: "The Seed
of the Prophet Cush"[8]. But, Nimrod's ancient Babel name was Merodach, which means "To
Be Bold, or Rebel"[9]. So here we find the real meaning of these two gods found in Scripture:
"Bel (The Confounder) is confounded, Merodach (The Rebel) is broken in pieces Jeremiah
50:2)." We will study more of the origin of the name "Bel" later.
In the Babylonian myth of Tammuz, or Thammuz (the equivalent to the Egyptian god
Osiris, who actually was Nimrod, the ringleader in the great apostasy against our Lord, was
ordered to be killed by a certain king. The reason given for his death was that Tammuz, the
incarnation of the Sun-god, tried to promote the worship of Astrology to this certain king.
However, this king ordered him to be put to death. Maimonides, another ancient historian, had
read deeply into the learning of the Chaldeans. He describes this myth, quoted by Hislop in
The Two Babylons, p. 62:
"When the false prophet named Thammuz preached to a certain king that he should
worship the seven stars and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, that king ordered him to be put to
a terrible death. On the night of his death all the images assembled from the ends of the earth
into the temple of Babylon, to the great golden image of the Sun, which was suspended
etween heaven and earth. That image prostrated itself in the midst of the temple, and so did
all the images around it, while it related to them all that had happened to Thammuz. The
images wept and lamented all the night long, and then in the morning they flew away, each to
his own temple again, to the ends of the earth. And hence arose the custom every year on the
first day of the month of Thammuz to mourn and to weep for Thammuz."
Now, in the worship of the Sun-god among the Mexicans, they believed that for the Sun-
god to bestow life on the world, he needed also to receive life from it [10]. To show the reade
the murderous character of Satan displayed in people, and what human beings can be led to do
y his false religious spirit, we will explore some of the reasons behind the rites of human
sacrifices.
To the ancient Mexicans, the heart was the seat and symbol of life, and bleeding hearts o
men and animals were presented to the Sun-god to maintain him in vigor and enable him to
run his course across the sky [11].
Now, when the Israelites turned their backs from worshipping the Lord, they adopted the
worship of the pagan gods from their neighbors. And they too were led by pagan high priests