Today is the Mesopotamian God Nergal's birthday.
A deity of certain sun-phases, as well as the desert (a negative aspect of the sun), war, pestilence, and the underworld, Nergal is represented by the summer solstice (high summer being the dead season in the cradle of civilization—portions of present day Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria).
Rival religions (christianity and judaism) sometimes referred to Nergal as a demon or as a minion of beelzebub.
Look how far we superstitious monkeys have crawled in...less than six thousand years.
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