There were many princes of this name, and almost every nation had its own Mars. […] The third, the Grecian Vulcan, was a Titan prince, son of Jupiter, obliged, by disgrace, to take refuge in the Isle of Lemnos, where he established the art of working iron and brass. […] So vast was the number of pilgrims, who resorted to the Jaggernaut, that the average annual amount of a tax of half-a-crown on each one of them, exacted by a Mahommedan prince of the country, was 750,000 l.; and 8000 lb. […] Human victims were frequently offered, and were often esteemed substitutes for warriors, or princes about to die, In times of great danger, or public calamity, even their kings were sometimes sacrificed, to appease the anger of their Deities. […] Surtur, prince of the Genii of fire.