The history of the devil and the idea of evil : from the earliest times to the present day (1900)
Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. Co. · leaf 81
E DEVIL. worshipper standing before tTie idol of a god. Behind himis the tree of life and a priest carrying in his left hand arosary, while the deity hovers above them in a similarshape to the Ahura-Mazda pictures of the Persians. Ahura Mazda is pictured as a winged disc withoutany head, in the… … ^^wsi:^Lh^i^^^MisjM:m:W.^ Sculptures on a Royal Tomb.(Coste et Flandin, Perse Aticienne, at Persepolis, pi. 164. Lenormant, V., p. 23.) man figure without wings, rising from a crescent thathovers above the sacrificial fire. Above him is a pictureof the sun, and before him stands a priest or a king…
Devil · Demonology · Good and evil
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