Fishes, Flowers, & Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths & Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India, &c.

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The Ancient Sacred Fish--Fish diet and its supposed effects--Fish and the Jews--The God Krodo--Oanes--Dagon--The Fish-god at Nimrod--Khorsabad--Fish Worship in Syria--Temple of Dagon at Azotus--The Dagon of the Bible--Adramelech--Abstinence from Fish-food--Ancient character of Fish Worship--"Paradise Lost"-- The Irish demi-god Phin--The Fish as a Christian Symbol--Idea involved in Fish Worship--Holy Fish Ponds--Ancient Caledonian objections to Fish--Other anti-fish-eating nations--Ishtar.