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Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war (1889)

Ragozin, Zénaïde A. (Zénaïde Alexeïevna), 1835-1924 · London : T. Fisher Unwin ; New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 156

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is side ofwhat may be termed the reduction ad abstirdiivi oftheir doctrines. This they do in the form of an extrarevelation, contained in a special chapter of theVendidad (Fargard V.), wherein Zarathushtra is made * Thus also the stretcher on which the dead arc carried must Ijcof iron. Metal is… … W W H < o o CI 130 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND PERSIA. to propound nice and puzzling points, in the form ofhypothetical cases, for Ahura-Mazda to solve. Wcgive the first part of this curious dialogue whole, asa si)ccinun : There dies a man in tlic depths of the vale : a hird takes (lightfrom tlie top of…

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