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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 398

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come within the bounds of the present work. That period maybe called that of the final decadence of pure Mazdeism. We knowof temples erected to Mithra and Anahita-Ardvi-Sura already byKing Artaxerxes, the grandson of Dareios. This was due to theinfluence of the Semitic and Canaanitic religions ;… … QZ DOA■J 0 X A H A y j^ n t^ ^^ y-^ J< o o ^ u D l4-« aj o lU I n /) .j:^ X «> ;4 X < ** z, 4J u < Hi T. 3 . a n ■Ji <fl 7, c c /. yi -^ .1 ^, Y) ^ •i. ■^ •< o en 368 MEDIA BABYLON, AND PERSIA. The inconsistcnc}, however, vanishes if wc assume,with JMax Duncker,* that temples not…

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