Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . rypeculiar object, which frecjucntly recurs in scenes ofworship and sacrifice, where it appears deposited on * Ior this and all that follows, compare Story of Chaldea, , Turanian Chaldea. f Every Mazdayasiiian is directed to bury the parings of his nailsin a hole dug on purpose in the earth, reciting certain prayers at the-same time. If he neglects this precaution, the nails shall be inthe hands of the daevas so many spears, knives, bows, falcon-wingeda
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . rypeculiar object, which frecjucntly recurs in scenes ofworship and sacrifice, where it appears deposited on * Ior this and all that follows, compare Story of Chaldea, , Turanian Chaldea. f Every Mazdayasiiian is directed to bury the parings of his nailsin a hole dug on purpose in the earth, reciting certain prayers at the-same time. If he neglects this precaution, the nails shall be inthe hands of the daevas so many spears, knives, bows, falcon-wingedarrows, and slingstones. The combings of hair and the hair that iscut or .shaved off are to be buried in like manner. (Vendidad, XVII.) THE VEXDIDAD.— THE LESRER A VESTA. I49 the altar. The use of it, or the nature, has neveryet been cxplainech Ihit on ehjse iiis[)ection itlooks extremely like a bundle of twii^s, uneven innumber, tied together with a ribbon. Is it notrather likely that it may represent the sacred divin-ing rods and be the original of the Avcstan l?ar-csma ? It were a ciuestion certainly well worth 15. ASSYRIAN ALTAR (COMrAKK. 11, lO, UAKKSMA WITH STAND). 3(1. Tlie l)clicf in the Druj Nasii, or corpsc-fiend, in the irreme-diable pollution caused l>y corpses and all that follows therefromconcerning the funeral rilrs and [luriticalions, the setting out of thedead to be devoured by wolves and vultures—these conceptions andcustoms belong neither to the Aryas, nor to the Chaldeans, nor to theAccadians. They must have originated in a mountainous country,very little civilized, and under the inspiration of a Turanian [ Greeks expressly tell us where they were in have ascertained that only the Bactrians and Caspians fol-lowed them, the former partially, the latter entirely. The later name of this region, Ilyrcania, hasIn-cornia by word for savage fierceness, and it was tm- 150 MEDIA, ; and doubtcdh a portion
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