Gaza

 

"Origen also gives a description of an Ophite diagram, which Celsus likewise had met with, consisting of an outer circle, named  

Leviathan, denoting the soul of all things, 

 with ten internal circles, variously coloured, the diagram containing also the figures and names of the seven demons." 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophites

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"That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; 

 to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the worlds; 

which the ancient Ophites of the east reverenced in their statue devil;- 

 Ahab did not fall down and worship it like them;  

but deliriously transferring its idea to the abhorred white whale, 

 he pitted himself, all mutilated, against it.   

All that most maddens and torments; 

 all that stirs up the lees of things; 

all truth with malice in it; 

 all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; 

all the subtle demonisms of life and thought;  

all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. 

 He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down;  

and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.' 

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/700/chapter-41-moby-dick/

 

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"The Israeli defense minister, Yoav Gallant, said:  

“We are fighting human animals. 

 There will be no Hamas; 

we will eliminate everything.”