The Tyrians were essentially Idolators,--so were the ancient Mexicans,--the former built Temples to their plurality of Gods,--the latter did the same. The Tyrians sacrificed human beings upon the unhallowed dedication of their temples:--the Mexicans followed this horror of a false Religion to its full extent; for at the dedication of the last chief Temple of Mexico, nearly _seventy thousand captives_, taken during four years' warfare, were sacrificed to propitiate their Deities! The Tyrians devoted human sacrifices to the God of War upon slight disaster or defeat,--the Mexicans had the same "remedy for sorrow:"--and the many Altar-blocks discovered amid the Ruined Temple of Copan (even now blood-stained) have been clotted with human gore. A very important God among the Tyrians was that of _Saturn_--a description is necessary, on account of the strong analogy to the Mexican Deity,--and that proved by the Sculpture of the newly-discovered Ruins. This strong similitude,--as a Rosetta-stone,--led us to the first translation of the Architectural wonders. Cronus--or the God Saturn,--among the Tyrians, was the deity to whom were sacrificed the most beautiful infants and children, and of the highest families;--it was insatiate, ever asking, always receiving, and ever destroying! This sacrifice to the Moloch of the Tyrians, was derived from the Canaanites, their original ancestors. MOSES, in warning his people to beware of the false Gods in the countries they might conquer, and referring especially to that of Canaan, says-- "For every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they (the Canaanites) done unto their Gods; _for even their sons and their daughters have they burnt in the fire to their Gods_." [Deut. xii. 31.] Again, in the third book of Moses,--the Lawgiver says-- "And thou shalt not let any of thy seed [offspring] _pass through the fire to Molech_." [Levit. xviii. 21.]--and again GOD spake by his Prophet, "Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth _any of his seed unto Molech_,--he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people;--because _he hath given of his seed unto Molech_, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy Name." [Levit. xx. 2, 3.] In the New Testament this same God of the Canaanites is called Moloch,--a name generally used in poetry to express the demon of blood. "Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch." [Acts vii. 43.] This was an ancient custom of the Canaanites, and followed by their descendants, the Sidonians, Tyrians, and Carthaginians,--it was, also, practised by the Mexican Aborigines.