[1161] Particularly by Herbert Spencer and his followers.
[1162] Isaiah, xiv 9-20, and Ezekiel, xxxii. 18-31. In Isaiah, the Babylonian Aralû is specifically described, while Ezekiel writes under the influence of Babylonian ideas.
[1163] Isaiah, viii. 19.
[1164] The Hebrew word for 'the dead,' refâim, conveys this idea.
[1166] See Sara Y. Stevenson, "On Certain Symbols used in the Decoration of Some Potsherds from Daphne and Naukratis" (Philadelphia, 1892), p. 8.
[1168] 'Eating' appears to be a metaphor for destruction in general.
[1169] The portals (?).
[1170] Jensen, Kosmologie, pp. 173 seq.