. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . -Gudin, from a photograph taken from the originalbas-relief in glazed tiles in the Louvre. THE DAEVAS AND THE PAIRIKAS 23 and waged war on the stars, and the universe becamedarkened like a space which the fire blackens with itssmoke. And the conflict grew ever keener over theworld and over man, of whom the evil one was jealous, andwhom he sought to children of Angr6-mainyusdisguised themselves underthose monstrous forms in whichthe imagination of the Chal-daeans had clothed the allies ofMummu-Tiamat, such as lionswith bu
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . -Gudin, from a photograph taken from the originalbas-relief in glazed tiles in the Louvre. THE DAEVAS AND THE PAIRIKAS 23 and waged war on the stars, and the universe becamedarkened like a space which the fire blackens with itssmoke. And the conflict grew ever keener over theworld and over man, of whom the evil one was jealous, andwhom he sought to children of Angr6-mainyusdisguised themselves underthose monstrous forms in whichthe imagination of the Chal-daeans had clothed the allies ofMummu-Tiamat, such as lionswith bulls heads, and the wingsand claws of eagles, which theAchsemenian king combats onbehalf of his subjects, boldly-thrusting them through withhis short sword. Aeshma ofthe blood-stained lance, terriblein wrath, is the most trustedleader of these dread bands,^ thechief of twenty other Daevasof repulsive aspect — Asto-vidhotu, the demon of death,who would devote to destruc-tion the estimable Fravashis ; ^Apaosha, the enemy of Tishtrya the wicked black THE KISG STRUGGLING AGAINSTAN EVIL 1 The name Aeshma means anger. He is the Asmodeus, Aeshmo-daev6,of Rabbinic legends. 2 Drawn by Boudier, from the photograph in Marcel Dieulafoy.^ The name of this demon signifies He who separates the hones. 24 THE IRANIAN CONQUEST the bringer of drought, who interferes with the distributionof the fertihsing waters; and Buiti, who essayed to killZoroaster at his birth.^ The female demons, the Druges,the Incubi (Yatus), the Succubi (Pairlka), the Peris of ourfairy tales, mingled familiarly with mankind before thetime of the prophet, and contracted with them fruitfulalliances, but Zoroaster broke up their ranks, and pro-hibited them from becoming incarnate in any form but thatof beasts; their hatred, however, is still unquenched, andtheir power will only be effectually overthrown at theconsummation of time. It is a matter of uncertaintywhether the Medes already admitted the possibilit
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