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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... and exhaustive method , and although the experiment really lay outside of his special line of studies , he undertook it , more to open the road for others and " show them how , " than with a view 14 MEDIA , BABYLON , AND PERSIA .
... and exhaustive method , and although the experiment really lay outside of his special line of studies , he undertook it , more to open the road for others and " show them how , " than with a view 14 MEDIA , BABYLON , AND PERSIA .
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... show them how , " than with a view to follow it to the end himself . True , he brought to the task a tool which Anquetil had lacked - a perfect knowl- edge of Sanskrit , the most ancient surviving language of the Aryans of India and the ...
... show them how , " than with a view to follow it to the end himself . True , he brought to the task a tool which Anquetil had lacked - a perfect knowl- edge of Sanskrit , the most ancient surviving language of the Aryans of India and the ...
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... shows him to be descended from one of the very oldest legendary kings . As to the time when king and prophet lived , it is likely that no positive date will ever be reached , and all we can with great proba- bility conjecture , is that ...
... shows him to be descended from one of the very oldest legendary kings . As to the time when king and prophet lived , it is likely that no positive date will ever be reached , and all we can with great proba- bility conjecture , is that ...
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... shows how impos- sible it is to ascertain with any degree of precision at what period the Avesta texts — as well the Gâthas as the later ones — were written down . No manuscripts now extant are really ancient . According to Parsi ...
... shows how impos- sible it is to ascertain with any degree of precision at what period the Avesta texts — as well the Gâthas as the later ones — were written down . No manuscripts now extant are really ancient . According to Parsi ...
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... difference of time , since Aryan an- tiquity has nothing to show at all like the prodigious dates as high as 4000 B.C. - authentically established If for Chaldea , and still more to difference of 38 MEDIA , BABYLON , AND PERSIA .
... difference of time , since Aryan an- tiquity has nothing to show at all like the prodigious dates as high as 4000 B.C. - authentically established If for Chaldea , and still more to difference of 38 MEDIA , BABYLON , AND PERSIA .
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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 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 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 - 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.
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 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.