[Footnote 203: Cruice points out that “eyes” are here probably written for “wells,” the Hebrew for both being the same, and refers us to the twelve wells of Elim in Exod. xv. 27.]
[Footnote 204: Schneidewin here quotes from Berossos the well-known passage about the woman Omoroca, Thalatth, or Thalassa, who presided over the chaos of waters and its monstrous inhabitants. See Cory’s _Ancient Fragments_, p. 25. The name has been generally taken to cover that of Tiamat whom Bel-Merodach defeated. See Rogers, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 107.]
[Footnote 205: All Titans, like Kronos himself.]
[Footnote 206: Macmahon reads here Ino, but this name appears later.]
[Footnote 207: There is some confusion here. The Platonists, following Philolaos, attributed singular properties to the twelve-angled figure made out of pentagons and declared it to have been the model after which the Zodiac was made.]
[Footnote 208: νυκτόχροος. It seems to be a translation of the Latin _nocticolor_.]
[Footnote 209: So the Codex. Schneidewin and Cruice would read Κρόνος, but that name has already occurred.]
[Footnote 210: Here again Schneidewin would read ἀστέρος, “star”; but the next sentence makes it plain that it is the wind which is meant.]
[Footnote 211: Ariel is in one of the later documents of the _Pistis Sophia_ made one of the torturers in hell.]
[Footnote 212: Probably Saclan or Asaqlan whom the Manichæans made the Son of the King of Darkness and the husband of the Nebrod or Nebroe mentioned above.]
[Footnote 213: πρωτοκαμάρον. Macmahon translates it the “star Protocamarus,” for which I can see no authority. It seems to me to be an inversion of πρωτομακάρος, “first-best,” very likely to happen in turning a Semitic language into Greek and back again.]
[Footnote 214: The dogstar, Sothis, or Sirius, was identified with Isis.]
[Footnote 215: Μύγδων. In a magic spell, Pluto, who has many analogies with Attis, is saluted as “Huesemigadon,” perhaps “Hye, Cye, Mygdon.” Has this Mygdon any analogy with _amygdalon_ the almond?]
[Footnote 216: Qy. Mise, the hermaphrodite Dionysos?]
[Footnote 217: Βουμέγας, “great ox”? All the other names which follow are those of magicians or diviners.]
[Footnote 218: Two of the seven “angels of the presence.” Their appearance in a list mainly of Greek heroes is inexplicable.]