Setting aside such titles as belong exclusively to the Deity, but assuming hero-worship--supposing man deified--who more appropriately placed in these primitive times at the head of the list, than their original progenitor Adam.[148] To whom would these titles, "the old Ana,"[149] "the original chief," "the lord of darkness and death," he who introduced death into the world, more exactly apply? Rawlinson also says--"His position is well marked by Damascius, who gives the three gods Anus, Illinus, and Aüs, as _next in succession to the primeval pair_, Assorus and Missara," i. 145. Now, it will not be contested, I think, that Assorus is the same as Alorus, the first of the ten antediluvian (deluge of Xisuthrus) Assyrian kings enumerated by Berosus, and which correspond to the ten antediluvian patriarchs. Consequently Assorus = Alorus = Adam.[150] [148] Osiris also is "the judge of the soul, or the god of the world of spirits." "Osiris is never represented in an animal form, but is called the Bull" (_infra_ pp. 203, 204), _vide_ Bunsen's "Egypt," iv. 332. Bunsen's own view is, that "the history of Osiris is the history of the cycle of the year, of the sun dying away and resuscitating himself again." Mr Palmer ("Egyptian Chronicles," i. p. 3) says--(and I think it as well that I should state that I had come to an almost identical conclusion, and had written this and the following chapter before I became acquainted with Mr Palmer's profound and yet still neglected work, _vide_ ch. vi.)--"The first human ('Osiris = Adam and Isis = Eve') having been thrown back into pairs of anthropomorphous deities (p. 2), the original Osiris and Isis, formed by the divine potter as parents of all, disappear in name, and are represented by Seb and Nutpe, while Osiris, Typhon, and Horus, the progeny of Seb and Nutpe, answers rather to Cain, Abel, and Seth, in the old world, and to the three sons of Noah in the new.... From Osiris-Seb (whether he be viewed as Adam or Noah) are derived downwards all the successive generations of Egyptian, gods and demigods, patriarchs, kings, and other men" [and for a parallel exposition of the Phoenician myth, _vide_ Palmer, p. 53 and seq., "each dynast in turn, in the early generations, being identifiable at once with Seb and Osiris, as father of those following, with Osiris again by sharing the same mortality, and with Horus as renewing his father's life and being the hope of the coming world. _So each ancestor in turn went_, it was said, _to the original Osiris as patriarch of the dead_, and to his intermediate Osirified fathers, and was himself Osirified like them, all making one collective Osiris." [I have not space to discuss the question at what stage the