| Meaning of Name in Hebrew: |
"roarer" or "exhaulted" |
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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