These names of angels occur in the first inscription given by Layard; in the second we find Satan, associated with idolatry, curses, vows, whisperings, witchcraft, and _Zevatta_--a concealer, rider, or enchanter from root like this and answering to the fairy which steals away. "It was between the night and day When the fairy king has power, That I sank down in a sinful fray, And 'twixt life and death was snatcht away To the joyless Elfin bower." --Lady of the Lake, canto iv., stanza xv. Another is named _Nidra_, which I take to signify vows made by supposed sorcerers. This demon is associated in the same line with _Zevatta_ above described. _Patiki_ is another bad influence, probably now, "a sword," for the charm has reference to freedom from captivity. Another devil is called _Isarta_, which I take to be a leader of banditti or marauders, from the Assyrian word (Furst's lexicon s.v. _asar_), "a leader, head or commander," and a word from a root like _ta_, "to drive," "to push forward," "to sweep away." We should call such an one "the demon of destruction." In this same inscription two good angels are named, Batiel or Bethiail, probably a variant of Bethuel, "the residence of El," and Katuel or Kathuail, the executioner or sword of El, from _katal_, to kill; compare this with the expression, "Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, sword, go through that land, so that I put off man and beast from it" (Ezek. xiv. 17). In addition to these two angels another is mentioned who has eleven names, not one of which is written in full--e.g. SS. BB. CCC. In a third inscription a devil is named "Abdi," which may be derived from the root _abad_, and be regarded as the same as the New Testament Abaddon (Rev. ix. 10)--the king of the slaughterers, bucaneers, rovers, &c. We can fancy that Negroes who are captured and sold in droves to foreigners, might imagine that Abdi was the devil which ruled the African slave drivers and Christian purchasers. This demon is associated with Levatta,--with tribulations, the machinations of the Assyrians, misery, treachery, rebellion; Nidra, with sorrows generally; and _Shoq_, which I take to be from a root like _shuq, or shaqaq_--i.e., "enemies thirsting for booty, rangers, bands of robbers." Compare--"And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies" (1 Sam. xiii. 17). See also--He "delivered them into the hand of the spoilers" (Jud. ii. 14; 2 Kin. xvii. 20). Amongst the devils must, I think, also be classed _Asdarta_, which is clearly the same as the goddess Astarte, and she is closely associated with "the machinations of the Assyrians." The good angels of this inscription are Barakiel, Ramiel, Raamiel, Nahabiel, and Sharmiel, over whose names we will not now linger, except to notice that the devils have names compounded with _jah_, whilst the good ones are derived from EL.