. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. The Sun Worshipers of Persia and their Religion. HE tnuiIer who maysojourn for any timein some of the Asiaticcities is interested ashe retire
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. The Sun Worshipers of Persia and their Religion. HE tnuiIer who maysojourn for any timein some of the Asiaticcities is interested ashe retires near theclose of day from thehusy thorouLhfares tothe seaside, or to someelevation, in witness-ing the worship of thedeclining sun by theParsees. a remnant ofa once great religionsbody whose Bible isthe Zend Avesta, theauthor of wliich wasZoroaster. The exact date at whidi this personage lived is not known. Some authorities place the time of his birth at a period about 400 years before Christ. Others date it back to a i>eriod before Moses. According to tradition, a good spirit appeared to his mother, who lived in Bokhara, in Southern Turkey, just before his birth, and assured her that she should be protected from the evil spirits that were seeking to destroy her child; that he would be a prophet, and the world was waiting for him. liecorded accounts make his father to have been Pourushaspa, and that the child lived, grew to manhood,and preac
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