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To-day he sprang the trap and ran away." "A friend of yours?" "The man we were talking about your ex-god Langdon." "Langdon," she repeated, and her tone told me that Sammy knew and had hinted to her more than I suspected him of knowing. And, with her arms still folded, she paced up and down the room.
To the monotheist an "ex-god" was simply a devilish deceiver of mankind whom the true God had succeeded in vanquishing; and thus the word demon, which to the ancient meant a divine or semi-divine being, came to be applied to fiends exclusively.
"But no dancer, Monsieur!" replied the ex-god Scamander, with a kind of half pirouette; "whereas the Grand Monarque was the finest dancer of his epoch." Madame Marotte had by this time supplied all her guests with tea and coffee, while Monsieur Philomène went round with the cakes and bread and butter.
"Isn't it the most unpleasant party you were ever at in your life?" The ex-god Scamander held up his hands and eyes. "Eh, mon Dieu!" he replied. "What an evening of disasters! I have lost my best pupil and my second-best wig!" In the meanwhile, we went up like the others, and said good-night to our hostess.
Honoria, not to keep the audience waiting, surveys the ex-god Seamander with a countenance expressive of horror; starts; and takes a turn across the stage. "Ma soeur," begins M. Dorinet, holding the book very much on one side, so as to catch the light upon the page, "ma soeur, voici le bras"....
Thus the Teutonic races, who preserved the name of their highest divinity, Odin, originally, Guodan, by which to designate the God of the Christian, were unable to regard the Bog of ancient tradition as anything but an "ex-god," or vanquished demon.
The German name for idol Abgott, that is, "ex-god," or "dethroned god" sums up in a single etymology the history of the havoc wrought by monotheism among the ancient symbols of deity.
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