Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . KOSTI ) WORN IAKSIS rUAVIMJOR DUUINf; ANN SAfRKU CKUKMONV. 5 Ii6 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND BEKSIA, his l)rcath ma)- not sully the supremely holy cle-ment. Such a cloth is worn to this day by ever)-Parsi while tending the sacred fire of liis own honic-altar, or even saying his prayers. 3. Every thing in the Vendidad, as well as in thelater purely liturgical portions of the Yasna, and thelitany known as the Visi^cred (see p. 3!D), betrays


Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . KOSTI ) WORN IAKSIS rUAVIMJOR DUUINf; ANN SAfRKU CKUKMONV. 5 Ii6 MEDIA, BABYLON, AND BEKSIA, his l)rcath ma)- not sully the supremely holy cle-ment. Such a cloth is worn to this day by ever)-Parsi while tending the sacred fire of liis own honic-altar, or even saying his prayers. 3. Every thing in the Vendidad, as well as in thelater purely liturgical portions of the Yasna, and thelitany known as the Visi^cred (see p. 3!D), betraysthe authority of a long-established and all-powerfulpriesthood. This would be obvious enough, even. 8. ATESH-r,AII OR KIKK-ALTAR OF MODERN TARSI. without the evidence of a passage (Fargard—/. c, chapter—IX.) where Zarathushtra is made to com-plain to Ahura-Mazda of the harm that is done by anyperson—layman or heretic—-who, not knowing therites of purification according to the law of Mazda,presumes to perform the ceremony for any of thefaithful who have incurred unclcanness. Ahura-Mazda expressly states that sickness and death, TIIF. VRNDIDAD.— THE LESSER A VESTA. 11/ and the working of the fiend, arc stronger than theywere before in consequence of such sacrilegious in-terference, and, on being asked What is the penaltythat he shall pay? gives the following directions : The worshippers of Mazda shall bind him ; they shall hind hishands first ; then they shall strip him of his clothes, they shall flayhim alive, they shall cut off his head, and they shall give over his


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