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 84
leisure andhabitual idleness ofbody developed anextraordinary facul-ty for spiritual con-templatio!! and aninordinate exuber-ance of fancy —which two qualitiescombined give colorand tone to theirentire mythology,religious and philo-sophical specula-tion, and poetry. 2. Very differentwere the… … < < o< 1=1 W < u Q <A W « 58 MEDIA, HABYLON, A\D PERSIA. lion, after taklni; llicni throu^li pleasant lands ofhills and valleys and streams, of woods and pastures,little differing from their older home, and where theyfounded prosperous settlements and states—Bactriabeing the chief of…
Zoroastrianism · Iran -- History · Babylon (Extinct city) -- History
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