hence came the Gods of _Laban_, the Gods and Goddesses called _Baalim_ and _Ashtaroth_ by the _Canaanites_, the Dæmons or Ghosts to whom they sacrificed, and the _Moloch_ to whom they offered their children in the days of _Moses_ and the Judges. Every City set up the worship of its own Founder and Kings, and by alliances and conquests they spread this worship, and at length the _Phœnicians_ and _Egyptians_ brought into _Europe_ the practice of Deifying the dead. The Kingdom of the lower _Egypt_ began to worship their Kings before the days of _Moses_; and to this worship the second commandment is opposed: when the Shepherds invaded the lower _Egypt_, they checked this worship of the old _Egyptians_, and spread that of their own Kings: and at length the _Egyptians_ of _Coptos_ and _Thebais_, under _Misphragmuthosis_ and _Amosis_, expelling the Shepherds, checked the worship of the Gods of the Shepherds, and Deifying their own Kings and Princes, propagated the worship of twelve of them into their conquests; and made them more universal than the false Gods of any other nation had been before, so as to be called, _Dii magni majorum gentium_. _Sesostris_ conquered _Thrace_, and _Amphictyon_ the son of _Prometheus_ brought the twelve Gods from _Thrace_ into _Greece_: _Herodotus_ [188] tells us that they came from _Egypt_; and by the names of the cities of _Egypt_ dedicated to many of these Gods, you may know that they were of an _Egyptian_ original: and the _Egyptians_, according to _Diodorus_, [189] usually represented, that after their _Saturn_ and _Rhea_, Reigned _Jupiter_ and _Juno_, the parents of _Osiris_ and _Isis_, the parents of _Orus_ and _Bubaste_.