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 452
nd other warlike tribes in the early part of the Mid-dle Ages. It is curious that he asserts that theytook their vanquished enemies* scalps, and describesthe process exactly as the American Indians havealways practised it. But they must have surpassedeven these in fierceness, if it is true that… … 422 MhDIA, B.IBYLOX, AND PERSIA. arms of their enemies, and make of the skin whichis stripped off with tlic nails hanging to it (as wc doof lions pnd tigers skins), a covering for their(|uivers. Such things arc entirely foreign and, onewould think, repugnant to Greek culture, which isgenerally mild…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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