Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . is of a widely differentcharacter. In this are included expres-sions of praise and adoration peculiar tothe Iranian worship. It is The Yacnathe devotional part of the SSSSffiSZoroastrian Bible. As al- relations,ready said, it contains the most ancientelement of the whole Avesta. Therecan be no doubt that the primitivehymns included in this collection weresung by the Indian Aryans and the Ira-nians while they were
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . is of a widely differentcharacter. In this are included expres-sions of praise and adoration peculiar tothe Iranian worship. It is The Yacnathe devotional part of the SSSSffiSZoroastrian Bible. As al- relations,ready said, it contains the most ancientelement of the whole Avesta. Therecan be no doubt that the primitivehymns included in this collection weresung by the Indian Aryans and the Ira-nians while they were still a common peo-ple. This aspect of the hymnody ofZoroastrianism raises again the disputed 584 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. question as to whether the Iranians wenttogether with the Indie branch of therace into the Punjab, and then, fromschism or other cause, parted companywith their kinspeople and turned intoIran. This view has been stoutly main-tained even by Professor Max on the whole it appears more ration-al, considering the geographical situationand the much greater extent of the mi-gratory movement into India, that thetwo races divided on the plateau, leaving. PERSIAN KING WORSHIPING AHURA-MAZDAO. the Iranic division behind, while the In-die families made their way through theHindu-Kush or the Himalayas to theirdestination. However this may be, thecommon element in the old songs of theIranians and in the Veda can not be de-nied or ignored, and the fact points un-mistakably to a common religious cere-monial earlier in its origin than thedivision of the races. The hymns of the Yacna are devo-tional. Sometimes the utterance of theworshiper is merely praiseful. Theattributes of goodness and love and beneficence are ascribed, in exclamatorylanguage, to the powers on high. Morefrequently the subject-mat- . ^ J J Hymns of the ter of the GathaS IS m Yacna; Mullers. 1 e c ^st- comments. the form of prayer. Ofthese, the great German Orientalist, Haug, has made
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