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Definitions From Alexander Hislop's

THE TWO BABYLONS (L-Q)

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| A-B | C-H | I-K | L-Q | R-T | U-Z |

Lakshmi:

"Mother of the Universe" of India. The consort of Vishnu, known for her gracious, and genial manners.

Lateinos:

[Greek] In the Latin form, Latium Latinus, and Lateo, means "to lie hid". From the Chaldean word Lat, "to lie hid". In Latopols, today Esneh, a city in Egypt, the fish Latus was worshipped beside the Egyptian Minerva. Apollo’s mother-wife in Greek was called Leto, or in Doric, Lato, feminine of Lat. The Roman name signifies "the lamenter of Lat". In Borrow’s Gypsies in Spain, or Zincali, vol. ii. p.113, "This image grim, whose name was LAUT, Bold Mahmoud found when he took Sumnaut." Virgil makes Latinus the 3rd in descent from Saturn and contemporary with Eneas (Eneid, lib. vii. 11 pp. 45-49)

Leukothea:

Also, leukothoe. Has a double meaning, derived from lukhoth, "to light" or "set on fire"; or lukoth, "to glean".

Lucifer:

A son of Aurora.

Ma Tsoopo:

[Chinese] "holy mother", from Ama Tzupah, "gazing mother". Same as Shing Moo, in the province of Fuh-kien. Mu is a form of Mut or Maut, name of a mother-goddess in Egypt, and shngh in Chaldee means "to look" or "gaze".

Mahozim:

Also, Mauzzim. Signifies "munitions", or "fortifications".

Mamacona:

"Mother-Priestess". This word is almost pure Hebrew, from ama, "a mother"; and cohn, "priest".

Mars:

Also, Mavors. "The causer of rebellion". Roman form of the Chaldean Mar or Mavor, the rebel. Known as Momrs among the Oscans of Italy. Meaning

Maut:

Egyptian goddess-mother, Khons was her son. She wore a vulture’s head-dress. {See: Definitions / Rhea}

Mavors:

Also, Mars. "The causer of rebellion". Roman form of the Chaldean Mar or Mavor, the rebel; also known as Momrs among the Oscans of Italy.

Melissa:

"A bee", the sweetener, or producer of sweetness, from mltz, "to be sweet." Melissa, a common name of the priestesses of Cybele. {SEE: Definitions/ Mylitta}

Melitta:

"The Mediatrix", the feminine form of Melitz, a "mediator", which in Chaldee becomes melitt. The word melitz is used in the book of Job and translated to mean interpreter. Melitta is a title under which Semiramis was worshipped in Babylon in the "unbloody sacrifice".

Melkart:

From Melek-kart, "king of the walled city", kir, the same as the Welsh Caer, signifies "an encompassing wall", or a "city completely walled around".

Memnon:

"Son of the spotted one".

Merodach:

"The Great Rebel." From Mered "to rebel" and Dakh, "the Great."

Mighty:

In the Greek Septuagint, translated in Egypt, the term mighty as is used in Gen. in references to Nimrod is also the ordinary name of a Giant.

Minerva:

[Egyptian] the lady.

Mithra:

Title that Tammuz was worshipped under his role of "mediator". Depicted in sculpture as a lion with a bee in his mouth {SEE: Definitions / Dabar}

Mizraim:

Scriptural name for Lord of Egypt. Evidently from the name of a son of Ham and grandson of Noah. In the Hebrew of Genesis is Metzrim. Metzr-im signifies the "enclosure or embanker of the sea"; the word being derived from im the same as yam, "the sea", and tzr, "to enclose" with formative "m" prefixed.

Molk-Gheber:

"The mighty king". Origin of the name Moloch mentioned in the Bible.

Moloch:

"King". From the word Molk.

Momis:

Also, Moumis. "The spotted one". {SEE: Definitions / Nimr}

Moneta:

The emphatic form of a Chaldean word meaning an "image".

Muftis:

The Turkish "interpreters" of the Koran. From the same verb muftis comes, also miftah, "a key".

Mulciber:

(Common spelling) The Roman "c" is hard. From the epithet gheber. The Parsees, or fire-worshippers of India are still called Ghebers. {See: Definitions / Ghebers}

Muth:

Death. Son of Rheia and Kronos.

Mylitta:

From mhz, "to be sweet"; in Greek is Mulitta, signifies "the Mediatrix". The Hebrew melitz, is in Chaldee melitt. The feminine of melitz is melitza from which comes melissa, "a bee".

Myrionymus:

Goddess with "ten thousand names". (Note: Any relationship to the word myriad?)

Narcissus:

"Child of Cush". In Greek, Narkissos. Naar signifies "child" and kissos, "Cush".

Nebo:

Babylonian god. The prophetic god attributed as leader of the cause which brought about the division of tongues.

Nebrod:

Greek name for Nimrod, found in Greek Septuagint.

Nebros:

Means "spotted fawn" emblem of the Bacchus of Greece.

Nimr:

Leopard.

Nimrod:

Signifies "the subduer of the leopard" from nimr, and rada or rad, "to subdue". (Note: the normal definition of Nimrod has to do with rebellion or revolt)

Ninevah:

From Nin-nevah meaning "the habitation of Ninus". (Note: Major part of the ruins of Ninevah are called Nimroud to this day}

Ninus:

[Hebrew] From nin, a son.

Nor:

[Chaldean] A child.

Nun:

[Chaldean] "The son". In Chaldea is either Nin or Non. Same as Ninus. The feminine form of Non, "a son", is Nonna, "a daughter"; which is the Popish canonical name for a Nun, and Nonnus in like manner was in early times the designation for a monk in the East.

Nur:

In Chaldean Nour signifies "birth. Nur cakes are "birth-cakes".

Oannes:

[Greek] A fish-god. Probably from He-anesh, "the man". Compare to the Irish conversion of H’ into O’, i.e., H’Brien, into O’Brien.

Omorka:

"The mother of the world". From am, "mother", and arka, "earth". The first letter, aleph, in both words often pronounced as o. Am, "mother", comes from am "to support", pronounced om. Oma, "mother" is one of the names of Bona Dea.

Ophiani

Or Ophites: Serpent-worship. Cult of professing Christians who heretically held to the doctrine that Christ was the "seed of the serpent", the same as the pagan messiah.

Ophthalmitis:

Title of Minerva, or Athena in Greece; goddess of "the eye".

Ops:

"The flutterer". Blasphemous name of goddess/holy spirit of the mysteries.

Oro:

Tahitian god of war. Horus ,or Orus, of Egypt, the son of Osiris, also is a god of war.

Orpheus:

Synonym for Bel. {SEE: definition / orv}

Orv:

[Hebrew] In Chaldee becomes orph signifying "to mix" and also "a willow-tree". Among the Greeks Orpheus symbolized as a willow-tree.

Osiris:

Greek form of He-siri, "the seed". Plutarch recorded that "Osiris was black," and that his son, Horus, "was of a fair complexion"

Ouranos:

From aor, or our, "light, and an, "to act upon" or "produce"; meaning "the enlightener" or "the shiner". Sanchuniathon called Ouranos the son of Elioun, which may be interpreted as "the most high".

P’ouro:

Name of the sun, identified with Royal serpent. P’ouro signifies both "the fire, and "the king". From this comes the epithet "Purros the ‘fiery’ is given to the ‘Great seven-Crowned Serpent’. Note, the word purros does not exclude the idea of "red", because the sun-god was painted red to identify him with Moloch, the god of fire and blood.

Pan:

"He who turns aside". Generic name for fallen man.

Parsees:

The fire-worshippers of India.

Peter:

In primitive Chaldea, not the Apostle, but the pagan Peter who had the keys to the Mysteries of Janus and Cybele.

Petr:

In Egypt petr was "the grand interpreter". From ptr, "to show".

Pharoah:

Title of the Pontiff-Kings of Egypt. The Egyptian form of the Hebrew word He-Roe. In Genesis pharoah in Hebrew is phe-roe. Phe is the Egyptian definite article. It was not shepherd-kings that the Egyptians abhorred, but Roi-Tzan, "Shepherds of cattle". {SEE: Definitions / Hero}

Pitho:

Or Pitys. The wife of Pan. From the verb puth or pet, meaning "to beguile". {See: Definitions/ Python}

Pitys:

[See: Definitions / Pitho; Python]

Phoroneus:

Has many meanings, generally means "to cast off", but the pertinent meaning is "apostate". Also signifies "to set free". The sons of Noah that were not infected by the heresies of the apostatcy called him Phoroneus, or "Apostate", at the same time Nimrod’s own followers called him by the same name, but they meant "deliverer" or "emancipator". From Pharo, also pronounced Pharang, or Pharong, meaning "to cast off", "to make naked", "apostasize", "to set free". {SEE: Definition / Feronia; Theseus}

Pluto:

(A synonym for Saturn) From the word lut, "to hide"; with the Egyptian prefix becomes P’lut.

Priest:

In Chaldee is spelt khn, different dialects supply the vowel to make it kohn, kahn, or kehn.

Pyracmon:

"The purifying burner". One of the 3 Cyclops in Virgil’s, Enid. From pur the Chaldean form of bur, "to purify" and Akmon, "the burner".

Python:

Name of the serpent. From the verb puth or pet, meaning "to beguile". {See: Definitions / Pitys}

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