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 82
deities, and whose earthly careers, haloedwitli the glory transferred to them from the divinechampions of Sky and Cloud-land, are the materialsout of which races weave their National Epos andHeroic Poetry. The Epos of Eran is rich v^^ith suchmythical heroes, and knows of whole dynasties ofthem, the… … IV. ARYAN MYTHS IN THE AYESTA—TIIETR AEEEGORI-CAL TRANSFORMATION. I. The myths of a race—as apart and distinguishedfrom its religion—being reducible to physical phe-Jiomena, animated into personal life by poeticaland epic treatment,* necessarily convey some indica-tions as to the physical…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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