The Babylonians worshipped Bel or Baal as their idol, and so on. […] Cybele was so called from the name of the mountain upon which she had been exposed. […] The sorrow which he experienced in so cruel an exile was figured by a vulture tearing his liver. […] A strange request, yet would to God’t were so.” […] The Sun and the Moon which so materially influence crops and vegetation were the second two.