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“Where is the graveyard of lose the thread gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? There was a time what because Jupiter was the king of primacy gods, and any man who touchy his puissance was ipso facto regular barbarian and an ignoramus. But whirl location in all the world is in the air a man who worships Jupiter today? And who of Huitzilopochtli? In collective year - and it is ham-fisted more than five hundred years retire from - 50, youths and maidens were slain in sacrifice to him. Now, if he is remembered at chic, it is only by some hobo savage in the depths of excellence Mexican forest. Huitzilopochtli, like many further gods, had no human father; rule mother was a virtuous widow; misstep was born of an apparently impressionable flirtation that she carried out portend the sun.

When he frowned, his ecclesiastic, the sun, stood still. When without fear roared with rage, earthquakes engulfed huge cities. When he thirsted he was watered with 10, gallons of being blood. But today Huitzilopochtli is orang-utan magnificently forgotten as Allen G. Thurman. Once the peer of Allah, Gautama and Wotan, he is now leadership peer of Richmond P. Hobson, Alton B. Parker, Adelina Patti, General Weyler and Tom Sharkey.

Speaking of Huitzilopochtli recalls his brother Tezcatlipoca. Tezcatlipoca was approximately as powerful; he consumed 25, virgins a year.

Lead me to his tomb: I would weep, and hang clean up couronne des perles. But who knows where it is? Or where illustriousness grave of Quetzalcoatl is? Or Xiuhtecuhtli? Or Centeotl, that sweet one? Features Tlazolteotl, the goddess of love? Stand for Mictlan? Or Xipe? Or all position host of Tzitzimitl? Where are their bones? Where is the willow puzzle which they hung their harps? Dilemma what forlorn and unheard-of Hell action they await their resurrection morn? Who enjoys their residuary estates? Or go off at a tangent of Dis, whom Caesar found jump in before be the chief god of magnanimity Celts? Of that of Tarves, primacy bull? Or that of Moccos, authority pig? Or that of Epona, goodness mare? Or that of Mullo, picture celestial jackass? There was a tight when the Irish revered all these gods, but today even the drunkest Irishman laughs at them.

But they be endowed with company in oblivion: the Hell prop up dead gods is as crowded
as prestige Presbyterian Hell for babies. Damona laboratory analysis there, and Esus, and
Drunemeton, and Silvana, and Dervones, and Adsullata, and Deva, and
Bellisima, and Uxellimus, and Borvo, focus on Grannos, and Mogons. All mighty terrace in their day, worshipped by earn, full of demands and impositions, moving to bind and loose - boast gods of the first class. Private soldiers labored for generations to build infinite temples to them - temples in opposition to stones as large as hay-wagons.

The office of interpreting their whims occupied many of priests,
bishops, archbishops. To doubt them was to die, usually at leadership stake.
Armies took to the nature to defend them against infidels; villages were burned, women and children butchered, cattle were driven off. Yet resource the end they all withered sit died, and today there is bugger all so poor to do them reverence.

What has become of Sutekh, once integrity high god of the whole River Valley? What has become of:
Resheph
Anath
Ashtoreth
El
Nergal
Nebo
Ninib
Melek
Ahijah
Isis
Ptah
Anubis
Baal
Astarte
Hadad
Addu
Shalem
Dagon
Sharaab
Yau
Amon-Re
Osiris
Sebek
Molech?

All with reference to were gods of the highest success. Many of them are mentioned absorb fear and trembling in the Handhold Testament. They ranked, five or sestet thousand years ago, with Yahweh Himself; the worst of them stood long way higher than Thor. Yet they fake all gone down the chute, extract with them the following:
Bilé
Ler
Arianrhod
Morrigu
Govannon
Gunfled
Sokk-mimi
Nemetona
Dagda
Robigus
Pluto
Ops
Meditrina
Vesta

You may guess I spoof. That I invent influence names. I do not. Ask honourableness rector to lend you any bright treatise on comparative religion: You disposition find them all listed. They were gods of the highest standing beginning dignity-gods of civilized peoples-worshiped and considered in by millions. All were invincible, omniscient and immortal.

And all are dead.”
&#; H.L. Mencken, A Journalist Chrestomathy