“In all ages, the gods have been liable to be euhemerized into men. There are tombs of Zeus, Apollo, Hercules, and Bacchus, which are often mentioned to show that originally, they were only mortals. Shem, Ham, and Japhet, are traced in the divinities Shamas of Assyria, Kham of Egypt, and Iapetos the Titan. Seth was god of the Hyksos, Enoch, or Inachus, of the Argives; and Abraham, Isaac, and Judah have been compared with Brahma, Ikshwaka, and Yadu of the Hindu pantheon. Typhon tumbled down from godhead to devilship, both in his own character as brother of Osiris, and as the Seth, or Satan of Asia.
Apollo, the god of day, became, in his older Phoenician garb, no more Baal Zebul, the Oracle-god, but prince of demons, and finally the lord of the underworld. The separation of Mazdeanism from Vedism, transformed the devas or gods into evil potencies. Indra, also, in the Vendidad is set forth as the subaltern of Ahriman, created by him out of the materials of darkness, together with Siva (Surya) and the two Aswins. Even Jahi is the demon of Lust, probably identical with Indra.
The several tribes and nations had their tutelar gods and vilified those of inimical peoples. The transformation of Typhon, Satan, and Beelzebub are of this character. Indeed, Tertullian speaks of Mithra, the god of Mysteries, as a devil. In the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, Michael and his angels overcame the Dragon and his angels: “and the Great Dragon was cast out, that Archaic Ophis, called Diabolos and Satan, that deceiveth the whole world.” It is added: “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb.” The Lamb, or Christ, had to descend himself to hell, the world of the dead, and remain there three days before he subjugated the enemy, according to the myth. Michael was denominated by the kabalists and the Gnostics, “the Saviour”, the angel of the Sun, and angel of Light. He was the first of the Aeons, and was well-known to antiquarians as the “unknown angel” represented on the Gnostic amulets.
The writer of the Apocalypse, if not a kabalist, must have been a Gnostic. Michael was not a personage originally exhibited to him in a vision (epopteia) but the Saviour and Dragon slayer. Archeological explorations have indicated him as identical with Anubis, whose effigy was lately discovered upon an Egyptian monument, with a cuirass and holding a spear, like Saint Michael and Saint George. He is also represented as slaying a Dragon, that has the head and tail of a serpent.
The student of Lepsius, Champollion, and other Egyptologists will quickly recognize Isis as the “woman with child”, “clothed with the Sun and with the Moon under her feet”, whom the “great fiery Dragon” persecuted, and to whom “were given two wings of the Great Eagle that she might fly into the wilderness. “Typhon was red skinned. The Two Brothers, the Good and Evil Principles, appear in the Myths of the Bible as well as those of the Gentiles, and Cain and Abel, Typhon and Osiris, Esau and Jacob, Apollo and Python, etc. Esau or Osu, is represented, when born, as “red all over like a hairy garment.” He is the Typhon or Satan, opposing his brother.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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