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>The Egyptian god Set-Typhon was sometimes depicted with a donkey head and he has also been more explicitly associated with the Jewish god. For example, we have the following passage from Plutarch:
>"Those who say that Typhon fled from the battle on an donkey for seven days, and having been saved produced sons, Hierosolymus and Judeaus, are at this point clearly dragging Jewish issues into the story." (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 363C-D)
>Seleucid Antiochus IV Epiphanes saw in Yahweh the "Semitic Typhon" and Judaism as a demonic cult whose purpose was to destroy the cult of the Gods and plunge Humanity into darkness, so he tried to destroy it and reconvert the Jerusalem temple into a center of worship for Zeus
>Antiochus issued decrees forbidding many traditional Jewish practices and began a campaign of persecution against devout Jews
>Swine were strictly unclean to Jews, but Diodorus wrote, Antiochus "sacrificed a great swine at the image of Moses, and at the altar of God that stood in the outward court, and sprinkled them with the blood of the sacrifice
>He commanded likewise that the books, by which they were taught to hate all other nations, should be sprinkled with the broth made of the swine's flesh, he also prohibited circumcision and castration (being considered by the Greeks as a senseless attack on one's own body), and human sacrifices (an allegation of which the Jews were accused since their stay in Egypt)
>Lastly he forced the high priest and the other Jews to eat swine's flesh"
