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of Vulcan and Medusa, a three-headed monster living on men’s bones and filth, in the cave of the Aventine at Rome (see Héraklés). Kakud. Sanskrit. The hump of the sacred bull, which is adored and anointed, as symbolising Daksha (see Daksha); and it was the seat of Indra. The Kakud-stha is sacred to Siva, Vishnu, and Krishna; and any hilly place, or rounded object, is a Kakunda. Kala. Kalu. Tamil: “a stone.” See Gal. Kala. Sanskrit: “time,” “fate,” “death,” “black,” a name of Yama the “ Restrainer,” and “god of the dead with whom dwell the spirits of the departed.” He is not a devil though much dreaded, for Yama (the Persian Yima) was the first man, and hence the first to die. He may have been first called Kala as ruling in “ darkne ,” or as lord of fate, or a man’s “time”: he is Antaka (Death), and the judge of the dead. He ruled all worlds till Brahma drew them from chaos. Maha-Kala, and his bride Kali, are the destructive powers of nature (see Kali); and Siva is Kala, in his destructive mood, and “ Lord of all”: being also (by Sata-hrada) the father of the man-eating Rakshasa demon Viradha. Kala was also one of the eleven Rudras, or primeval deities; and Vishniivas call him “ Time without end or beginning,” uniting matter with life. Kalah. Calah. Hebrew: “ancient”—an A yrian city (Gen. x, 11-12) now Nimriid near Nineveh on the S.S.E. It was rebuilt by Shalmaneser I about 1300 B.c.: and again by A tr-nasir-pal about 885 B.c., and had temples of A tir and of Marduk, on a platform by the city wall. The famous “ Black Obelisk ” of Shalmaneser II (858-820 B.c.), comes from Kalah, recording victories in Syria and Palestine (including the tribute of Jehu), and tribute from the East, of the elephant, rhinoceros, and Baktrian hounds and camels, with monkeys, indicating trade with India. Kaldea. Chaldea. The inhabitants of S. Babylonia, from the 9th century B.c., are mentioned in A yrian texts as Kaldi. The word Chaldeans in the English Bible represents the Hebrew Kasdim, rendered Khaldaioi in the Greek version. Herodotos, and later cla ic writers, called the Babylonians generally Khaldaioi; but, on account of their reputation as magicians and astronomers, the term came to be applied to Babylonian priests and diviners, There were other Khaldaioi in Armenia (according to Lenormant, Lettres A yriologiques), who may be named from the Vannic deity Khaldis, But this has no connection with the Kaldi, or with the Kasdim (see Abraham, and Kasdim). 383