Solomon
"The connection of Solomon, son of David, the King of Israel, with magical practice, although it does not possess any Biblical authority, has yet a very considerable body of oriental tradition behind it. It is supposed, however, that the Jewish Solomon has in many cases been confounded with a still older and mythical figure. Then the Arabs and Persians have legends of a prehistoric race who were ruled by seventy-two monarchs of the name of Suleiman, of whom the last reigned one thousand years. 'It does not seem,' says Yarker, 'that these Suleimans who are par excellence the rulers of all Djinn, Afreet and other elemental spirits, bear any relationship to the Israelite King.' The name, he says, is found in that of a god of the Babylonians and the late Dr. Kenealy, the translator of Hafiz, says the earliest Aryan teachers were named Mohn, Bodies or Solymi, and that Suleiman was an ancient title of royal power, synonymous with 'Sultan' or 'Pharaoh.'
A Persian legend states that in the mountains of Kaf, which can only be reached by the magic ring of Solomon, there is a gallery built by the giant Arzeak, where one kept the statues of a race who were ruled by the Suleiman or wise Kings of the East. There is a great chair or throne of Solomon hewn out of the solid rock, on the confines of the Afghanistan and India called the Takht-i-Suleiman or throne of Solomon, its ancient Aryan name being Shankar Acharga. It is to these older Suleimans then, that we must probably look for a connection with the tradition of occultism, and it is not unlikely that the legend relating to Solomon and his temple have been confused wtih these, and that the protagonists of the antiquity of Freemasonry, who date their cult from the building of Solomon's Temple, have confounded some still older rite or mystery relating to the ancient dynasty of Suleiman with the circumstances of the masonic activities of the Hebrew monarch."
[Lewis Spence, An Ecyclopaedia of Occultism, 1920, p. 372.]