However, to accept this. Our common dictionaries, however, are honest in revealing to us the true origin. They all trace the word back to its Old English or Anglo-Saxon root, namely circe. Any encyclopaedia, or dictionary of mythology, will reveal who Circe was. Circe, daughter of the well known Sun-deity Helios.
Some interesting facts emerge from the study of the word circe .
Anyone can check on this in Stong's Concordance, No. 543 in its Hebrew Lexicon, and No. 281 in its Greek Lexicon, or in Aaron Pick's Dictionary of Old Testament Words for English Readers. Again we can see how the pagans have been made welcome, been conciliated, by adopting the name of pagan deity into the Church. However, the most reliable Egyptologists and archaelogsits, such as Sir E.A. Wallis Budge,112 Dr. A.B. Cook,113 Prof. He states on pp. The difference is subtle, but it is there.