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 434
his mouth, and all who approach the royal presencekeep their hands in their long sleeves in token ofpeaceful intentions. There again the king is pre-sented to us as the earthly image of Ahura-Mazda,fulfilling his god-given mission of warring with andannihilating the evil creation of Angra-Mainyu,… … 66. DAREIOS IlGIITING A MONSTER—A DAEVA OK AHRIMANIAN BEAST.(Persepolis, Ilall of the Hundred Columns.) 404 Mr.nr.i, B.invro.v, and pf.r^ta. has been called. At soinc of the entrances wingedbulls mount their watch, but slightl} altered fromtheir Assyrian prototypes, (see ill. 48). It is easyto…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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