The Story of Media, Babylon and Persia: Including a Study of the Zend-Avesta Or Religion of Zoroaster; from the Fall of Nineveh to the Persian War, (continued from "The Story of Assyria")G.P. Putnam's sons, 1888 - 447 pages |
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... mythical epos . - § 21 . King Yama and the Pitris . - § 22. Aryan reverence toward the spirits of the departed - the Pitris . - § 23. The Pitris pass into heroic epos . IV . ARYAN MYTHS IN THE AVESTA - THEIR ALLEGORI- CAL TRANSFORMATION ...
... mythical epos . - § 21 . King Yama and the Pitris . - § 22. Aryan reverence toward the spirits of the departed - the Pitris . - § 23. The Pitris pass into heroic epos . IV . ARYAN MYTHS IN THE AVESTA - THEIR ALLEGORI- CAL TRANSFORMATION ...
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... mythical . — 11 . His spiritual transformation : the god of light becomes the god of truth . - § 12. His allegorical at- tendants : Victory , Obedience , Uprightness , etc.- 13 . Allegory a distinctive feature of the Eranian mind ...
... mythical . — 11 . His spiritual transformation : the god of light becomes the god of truth . - § 12. His allegorical at- tendants : Victory , Obedience , Uprightness , etc.- 13 . Allegory a distinctive feature of the Eranian mind ...
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... mythical legends , traditions , and digressions of various sorts . II . The VISPERED : invocations to all the divine and holy beings , who are honored under the title of " Chiefs of the Good Creation , " and invited to assist at the ...
... mythical legends , traditions , and digressions of various sorts . II . The VISPERED : invocations to all the divine and holy beings , who are honored under the title of " Chiefs of the Good Creation , " and invited to assist at the ...
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... mythical matter , indeed distin- guished altogether by a polytheistic and mythologi- cal character entirely foreign to the early stages of Zarathushtra's religion , and clearly showing a far later and greatly corrupted period . These ...
... mythical matter , indeed distin- guished altogether by a polytheistic and mythologi- cal character entirely foreign to the early stages of Zarathushtra's religion , and clearly showing a far later and greatly corrupted period . These ...
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... mythical and religious narratives , about the beginning of things , and also the end and regeneration of the world , the order that rules . the universe , chapters of a fanciful geography and astronomy clearly betraying the same mythical ...
... mythical and religious narratives , about the beginning of things , and also the end and regeneration of the world , the order that rules . the universe , chapters of a fanciful geography and astronomy clearly betraying the same mythical ...
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Agbatana Ahura Ahura-Mazda Akhæmenian Amesha-Spentas ancient Anshan army Aryan Asia Assyria Astyages Âtar Avesta Babylon Babylonian Bardiya battle called Chaldea corpse daêvas Dakhmas Dareios death deities divine earth Egypt empire Erân Eranian evil faithful father fire followers Fravashis Gâthas give gods Greek hand Haoma heavenly Herodotus holy hymns India Indo-Eranian inscription Kambujiya Kambyses king Kroisos Kurash KURUSH Kyaxares Kyros land light living Lord Lydian material Mazda Mazdayasnian Mazdeism Medes Median ment Mithra mountain myth mythical Nabonidus nations nature Nebuchadrezzar original palace Parsis PERSEPOLIS Persian prayer priests probably prophet provinces race reign religion religious river royal sacred sacrifice Sardis Sassanian Scythians sea Vouru-Kasha Semitic silver soul spirit Sraosha Story of Assyria Story of Chaldea Susa tablets temple thing thou tion Tishtrya Turanian unto Váruna Vendîdâd walls waters words worship Yasna Yazatas Yesht Yima Zarathushtra Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Page 177 - And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name...
Page 176 - As I live, saith the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence...
Page 180 - He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth out, and falleth to the Chaldeans, that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.
Page 184 - Tyre : every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled : yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyre, for the service that he had served against it : therefore thus saith the Lord God...
Page 406 - ... where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble.
Page 178 - I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Page 360 - To the state he thus falsely declared : " I am Bardes the son of Cyrus, the brother of Cambyses." Then the whole state became rebellious ; from Cambyses it went over to him, both Persia and Media, and the other provinces. He seized the empire ; on the pth day of the month Garmapada,* then it was he thus seized the empire.
Page 184 - Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
Page 175 - He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.