Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . madic, fluctuating, migrating condition. Thisis abundantly shown by such passages as, for in-stance, that which prescribes (Vendidad, VIII.) whatshould be done with the corpse of a dog or a man,if there is no Dakhma within reasonable distance: If they find it easier to remove the dead than torei>!ove the house,they shall take out the dead, they shall let the house stand, and shallperfume it with sweet-smelling plants. // they Jilld it easier to rc7no7ic th
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . madic, fluctuating, migrating condition. Thisis abundantly shown by such passages as, for in-stance, that which prescribes (Vendidad, VIII.) whatshould be done with the corpse of a dog or a man,if there is no Dakhma within reasonable distance: If they find it easier to remove the dead than torei>!ove the house,they shall take out the dead, they shall let the house stand, and shallperfume it with sweet-smelling plants. // they Jilld it easier to rc7no7ic the house than to remove the dead,they shall take away the house, they shall let the dead lie on the spot,and shall perfume the house with sweet-smelling jdants. What can such a movable house be but a hutof branches or a tent, the nomads temporary 24. Now we know not only what, in a generalway, the direction of the Eranian migration was—from east to west,—but we also know about whattime they began to reach the term of that migration, ;:-.;-A.,,;;,..;j^ J w MiiM^ M ¥ mi ;?.„,„: Iy lilt,/ ??\ .. .f. %mh^»-4m-m-&ii w OS a > «•! /^ 144 .^, ; and p erst a. the cistern spurs and valleys of the Zagros region,and the still more rugged highlands between theCaspian Sea and the great lakes of Urartu—Uru-niich and Van—the district now known as , corrupted from the classic AtropatENE,itself a transformation of an older Eranian namemeaning Dominion of Fire. We have monu-mental proof that tlic Eranian branch then alreadyknown as Medes (Mai)AI) were dislodging the tribesamong the eastern ridges of Zagros, and were them-selves attacked by the Assyrian arms as far back asthe ninth century under Raman-Nirari III.,* andwere probably mentioned already under that kingsgrandfather, the great Shalmaneser II. We arefurther led to suppose that portions at least of theadvancing Medes must have passed through or nearthe territories
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