Manu the Great was a Chaldean god who "presided over

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". Manu the Great is unrelated to and should not be confused with the

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progenitor of mankind,

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nor any of his manifestations. He is referred to as one of the ''dii minores'', or minor deities, of ancient Chaldea by Lenormant in his 1875 work, ''Chaldean Magic'': Henry George Tomkins, an Exeter clergyman and member of the

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, saw Manu as a possible link to the "sons of

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", mentioned in the Old Testament: He is also listed in

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's ''A Dictionary of Angels''. Both Tomkins and Davidson cite only Lenormant for their reference to Manu the Great.

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