Media, Babylon and Persia: Including a Study of the Zend Avesta from the Fall of Nineveh to the Persian WarPutnam, 1903 - 447 pages |
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... light - god , Mitra.- 10. The Aryan fire - god , Agni.— § 11. Aryan - dualism . Gods and demons , light and dark- rain and drought . - § 12. Aryan storm - myth.— § 13. Indra , the god of the thunderbolt . — § 14. Vritra and Ahi , the ...
... light - god , Mitra.- 10. The Aryan fire - god , Agni.— § 11. Aryan - dualism . Gods and demons , light and dark- rain and drought . - § 12. Aryan storm - myth.— § 13. Indra , the god of the thunderbolt . — § 14. Vritra and Ahi , the ...
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... , and with many defiled flame is certainly the most sublime natural representation of Him who is in Himself Eternal Light . " contradictions , but always with reverence , as one coupled. A NOTABLE RELIGIOUS SURVIVAL . 7.
... , and with many defiled flame is certainly the most sublime natural representation of Him who is in Himself Eternal Light . " contradictions , but always with reverence , as one coupled. A NOTABLE RELIGIOUS SURVIVAL . 7.
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... Light ; Fire , as manifested in the lightning , or the flame on the altar and the hearth ; the Sun in all his many aspects ; the kindly motherly Earth ; the Winds , the Waters , the life- giving Thunderstorm ; -all these were by them ...
... Light ; Fire , as manifested in the lightning , or the flame on the altar and the hearth ; the Sun in all his many aspects ; the kindly motherly Earth ; the Winds , the Waters , the life- giving Thunderstorm ; -all these were by them ...
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... Light to conquer Dark- ness , of Wind and Storm to gather the clouds driven out of sight by the fiends of Drought , and to pour down rain . Hence the Aryas ' simple and manly at- titude towards their deities : praise , thanksgiving ...
... Light to conquer Dark- ness , of Wind and Storm to gather the clouds driven out of sight by the fiends of Drought , and to pour down rain . Hence the Aryas ' simple and manly at- titude towards their deities : praise , thanksgiving ...
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... light of day , for the warmth of the sun , the conqueror and disperser of all evil things that lurk in darkness , of phantoms and bad dreams , -lastly as the messenger between the two worlds , whose flames , leaping aloft , carry up to ...
... light of day , for the warmth of the sun , the conqueror and disperser of all evil things that lurk in darkness , of phantoms and bad dreams , -lastly as the messenger between the two worlds , whose flames , leaping aloft , carry up to ...
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Ahura Ahura-Mazda Akhæmenian Amesha-Spentas ancient Anshan Aryan Aryas Asia Astyages Âtar Avesta Babylon Babylonian battle called Chinvat Bridge corpse daêvas Dakhmas Dareios death deities divine earth Êgibi Egypt empire Erân Eranian evil faithful fiends fire followers Fravashis Gâthas gods Greek Gyges hand Haoma Hara-Berezaiti heaven heavenly Herodotus holy hymns India Indo-Eranian inscriptions Kambujiya Kambyses king Kroisos Kyaxares Kyros land language light living Lord LYCIA Lydian material Mazda Mazdayasnian Mazdeism Medes Median Median Empire ment Mithra modern mountain myth mythical nations nature Nebuchadrezzar original palace Parsis PERSEPOLIS Persian prayer priests probably prophet race reign religion religious ROCK-TOMB royal sacred books sacrifice Sassanian Scythians sea Vouru-Kasha Semitic silver soul spirit Sraosha Story of Assyria Story of Chaldea 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 406 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace ; 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.
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Page 360 - 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.