Another analogy will now be produced equally as powerful--if not more so, than that having reference to the Tyrian Moloch. The Phœnicians had in their several capitals a Temple erected to a tutelary, or National God,--and that became the chief object of worship. The Greeks copied this custom,--but, in the Cecropian decision in the contest between Neptune and Pallas, the Goddess was preferred,--and thus the "rejected" on Mount Ida became the Guardian of the Acropolis. The Daughter of Jupiter, in her character of Minerva, was not only worshipped by Athens, but by all Attica,--and under the name of _Intellect_, she is now worshipped by every Nation! The Tyrians, from their remote ancestors, the Canaanites, selected Apollo, as their favourite and protective God,--although Jupiter was the Chief of Gods with all the Heathens,--and was worshipped under the name of Baal, or Belus, by the Babylonians and Assyrians,--Ammon by the Egyptians,--Jupiter by the Phœnicians and Greeks,--and as Jove by the Romans. The Sun,--(_i. e._ Apollo,)--as the Eye of Heaven,--was worshipped by the Canaanites, Sidonians, Tyrians, and Carthaginians as their protective God,--it never left the great Phœnician family from the time of Canaan the "cursed,"--the grandson of Noah,--to the destruction of Carthage by the Romans,--a period of near two thousand years. The chief Games,--or public festivals, of the Tyrians were the Heraclian,--_i. e._ those dedicated to Hercules-Apollo;--the name was compounded by the Tyrians, in order to personify the _strength_ and _power_ of their God of Fire. Apollo in the mythology of the ancients had many attributes,--but the chief was that of being regarded as the Symbol of the Sun, and as such, was worshipped by the Tyrians, and had been from remote antiquity, and even down to so late a period as the third century of our own æra: for in 218, A. D., _a Priest of the Sun_, officiating at Emessa, in _Phœnicia_, though a youth, was elevated to the Imperial dignity at Rome, in the person of Elagabalus,--and who, upon his arrival the following year in his Italian Capital, endeavoured to establish the absolute Worship of the Sun as practised in _Phœnicia_. In this he succeeded, but in the fourth year of his reign he was assassinated, when the Romans returned to the adoration of their Jupiter. The Sun was, also, the chief worship at Palmyra, and upon the conquest and captivity of the heroic Zenobia by the Emperor Aurelian, in 272 A. D.,--the conqueror introduced the worship of Apollo at Rome:--but, not as Elagabalus to the exclusion of Jupiter as the chief Deity.