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 172
ted in the Vendidad, andflowing from no-Aryan sources assuredly : the use ofthe Baresma, the treatment of the dead, the treat-ment of diseases by conjuring-spells, the exaggeratedreverence paid to the elements, the belief in num-berless hosts of fiends always on the watch topounce on men and draw… … o KCO W a;w Q I4C> MEDIA, BABYLON, AM) JKKSIA. some of thcni indeed are extreme]} familiar to usfrom the texts and spells of Shumir and Accatl,--•ancient Chaldea,* and the presumption is very strony;that the populations of the Zagros and Caspian re-t:;ions which the Medes, in the course of some…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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