Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . d free. Ahrimanis the evil and evil-doer, and in constant war with Ormazed;this world is their battle-field. There are inferior good spiritswhich are called genii, who are the instruments of Ormazed,but the fire alone was the personification of the son of Ormazed,and therefore an object of veneration and worship. The abominable religion of the ancient Babylonians musthave had a great influence even over the religion of Zoroaster,for we find that the Persians and Armenians had also similargods, Hke Mithea, sungod, and Anahita, the goddess of mag
Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . d free. Ahrimanis the evil and evil-doer, and in constant war with Ormazed;this world is their battle-field. There are inferior good spiritswhich are called genii, who are the instruments of Ormazed,but the fire alone was the personification of the son of Ormazed,and therefore an object of veneration and worship. The abominable religion of the ancient Babylonians musthave had a great influence even over the religion of Zoroaster,for we find that the Persians and Armenians had also similargods, Hke Mithea, sungod, and Anahita, the goddess of magi were the priests of Zoroastrianism, with a high priestof this order who was called in Armenian language Mogbed,(the head or the leader of magi). No doubt this was the re-ligion of the Armenians for nearly nine centuries, from theend of the seventh century B. C, to the end of the third centuryof our era (or A. C). Possibly there weric some modificationsand additions from the Grecian polytheism after the conquestof Alexander the ABGAR, THE FIRST CHRISTIAN KING ON THE EARTH. CHAPTER V. FIRST INTRODUCTION OF THE GOSPEL IN ARMENIA. At the time of our Lords birth, Armenia was divided intoseparate portions, called respectively Great and LittleArmenia. The latter district extended from the Gordyian Moun-tains to the Euphrates, and had as its capital the Greek cityof Nieibis (or Niezib, in Turkish). Greek art and civilizationhad long exercised a great influence upon the whole of Syriaand Mesopotamia; but the Roman and Greek writers seem toregard the Kingdom of Osroene or Osrhoene, as that of Ar-menia Minor was generally styled, as in large measure is well known, the Roman government claimed the suze-rainty over Mesopotamia; and Arsham, who died King ofOsrhoene in B. C. 3, and left his title to his son Abgar, wasin reality little else than their deputy, holding his positionlike Herod the Great in Palestine, only by the favor of hisemperial master. Abgar, being devoted
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