— Greek, Helios*; Roman, Sol*; Persian, Mithras* or Mithra*; Chaldean, Baal* or Bel*; Canaanite, Moloch*; Egyptian, Ra*, Osiris*, Horus*, Pthah*. […] Thus the sun was worshiped as Bel*, or Baal*, the Lord, and as Moloch*, or the King, these names being gradually set apart for separate deities, just as Endymion, Hyperion, Apollo, Perseus, all originally mere names of Helios (the sun), became at length names of different persons. […] Bel* was also a favorite god, but Nin* and Nergal*, the winged bull and lion, that presided over war and hunting, were more devotedly worshiped.