Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . ZC u y. tiu QO ooII LYDIA AND ASIA MINOR. 201 temples, with their crowds of ministering women,gave rise to the Greek legend of the Amazons.* Thefabled empire of these much-famed warrior-women—the head-quarters, so to speak, of the legend—wasplaced on the banks of the TlIERMODON, at no very-great distance from the present ruins of Boghaz-Keui,and we know that the goddess, here named MA, hadone of her principal temples served by no less than6,000 women, in that
Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . ZC u y. tiu QO ooII LYDIA AND ASIA MINOR. 201 temples, with their crowds of ministering women,gave rise to the Greek legend of the Amazons.* Thefabled empire of these much-famed warrior-women—the head-quarters, so to speak, of the legend—wasplaced on the banks of the TlIERMODON, at no very-great distance from the present ruins of Boghaz-Keui,and we know that the goddess, here named MA, hadone of her principal temples served by no less than6,000 women, in that same neighborhood, at Ko-MANA in Cappadocia, a province which in very olden. lb. GRANARY IN MODERN LYCIA. times stretched farther towards the lilack Sea thanat a later, classical period. The Amazons were saidto have founded cities. Wherever this is the case,we may be sure that ancient llittite sanctuaries ex-isted. Ephesus, Smyrna, Kyme, and several other[ilaces along the Ionian coast come under this , It is jn-obable that the llittite rule and culturereached their widest westwartl expansion suoii after * See Story of Assyria, pp. 30, 36, 205, 206, and | A. II. Sayccs AnciciU Enipircs oi the Eabt, p. 430. 202 MEDIA, BABYLON, AXP FKKSIA. the fifteenth century , and maintained theirsupremacy until about the year lOOO , at least inAsia Minor, as in Syria— The Land of Khatti of theinscriptions,—they had already begun to recede be-fore the aggressive advance of Assyria, and the pres-sure of Semitic elements generally. But even inAsia Minor the great Thraco-Phrygian migration hadoverspread the forgotten Turanian subsoil and Hit-tit
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