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Rimmon - A fallen archangel, now an "inferior demon." Rimmon was originally an Aramaean deity worshipped at Damascus; also an idol of Syria. In occultism he is the devil's ambassador to Russia. In Bates' The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature (p. 1262, glossary) "Elisha allowed Naaman the Syrian to bow down with his master in the house of Rimmon." Thus, to bow down in the house of Rimmon implies "to conform to a reprehensible custom to save one's life." To the Semites, Rimmon was the god of storms, the Akkadian name being Im (Forlong, Encyclopedia of Religions). His emblem is the pomegranate. The Assyrians called him Barku (lightening) and the Kassites named him Tessub. In Babylonian myth, Rimmon was the thunder god, pictured with a trident.

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