Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map (1906)
Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 60
venturing to stepover the charmed line, which reminds one of the Tcarshvarsdrawn in Avestan rites of exorcism according to the Vendidad.It is thought, moreover, that the Yezidi religion shows distantsurvivals of the old Assyro-Babylonian worship of the sun,moon, and stars, for the faith appears to… … Yezidis, or so-called Devil-Worshippeks, in Tiflis BELIEFS OF THE DEVIL-WORSHIPPERS 13 moon-god Sin as Sheikh Sinn, an emanation of God him-self.i In many respects the Yezidi doctrines have been influencedby Manicheeism, and its doctrines of purity, by NestorianChristianity and especially by…
Zoroastrianism
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