. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . m^km\. HYPORSTYLE OF HALL OF XERXES: DETAIL OF ENTABLATURE. AHURA-MAZDA THE SUPREME GOD 13 portrayed under the form of a king of imposing statureand majestic mien, who revealed himself from time totime to the princes of Iran.^ He was named Ahur6-mazd^o. AN IKANIAN GENIUS IN FOBil OF A WINGED BULL.^ or Ahura-mazda, the omniscient lord,^ Spento-mainyus, thespirit of good, Mainyus-spenishtd,* the most beneficent of In a passage of Philo of Byblos the god is described as having the headof a falcon or an eagle, perhaps by confusion with on
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . m^km\. HYPORSTYLE OF HALL OF XERXES: DETAIL OF ENTABLATURE. AHURA-MAZDA THE SUPREME GOD 13 portrayed under the form of a king of imposing statureand majestic mien, who revealed himself from time totime to the princes of Iran.^ He was named Ahur6-mazd^o. AN IKANIAN GENIUS IN FOBil OF A WINGED BULL.^ or Ahura-mazda, the omniscient lord,^ Spento-mainyus, thespirit of good, Mainyus-spenishtd,* the most beneficent of In a passage of Philo of Byblos the god is described as having the headof a falcon or an eagle, perhaps by confusion with one of the genii repre-sented on the walls of the palaces. 2 Drawn by Boudier, from a photograph. 3 Ahura is derived from Ahu = Lord : Mazddo can be analysed into the com-ponent parts, maz = great, and ddo = he who knows. At first the two termswere interchangeable, and even in the Gathas the form Mazda Ahura isemployed much more often than the form Ahura MazdS,. In the Achaemenianinscriptions, Auramazda is only found as a single word, except in aninscription of Xerxes, where the two terms are in one passage separated anddeclined Aurahya mazddha. The form Ormuzd, Ormazd, usually employedby Europeans, is that assumed by the name in modern Persian. * These two names are given to him more especially in connect
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