. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . who,first in golden splendour, passes over thebeautiful mountains and casts his glancebenign on the dwellings of the Aryans.*Mithra was a charming youth of beautifulcountenance, his head surrounded with aradiant halo. The nymph Anahita was adored under theform of one of the incarnations of the Babylonian goddess 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a coin of King Kanishka, published byPercy Gardner. ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from coin published by Percy Gardner. 3 Hara is Haroberezaiti, or Elburz, the mountain over which the sunrises, aroun
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . who,first in golden splendour, passes over thebeautiful mountains and casts his glancebenign on the dwellings of the Aryans.*Mithra was a charming youth of beautifulcountenance, his head surrounded with aradiant halo. The nymph Anahita was adored under theform of one of the incarnations of the Babylonian goddess 1 Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a coin of King Kanishka, published byPercy Gardner. ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from coin published by Percy Gardner. 3 Hara is Haroberezaiti, or Elburz, the mountain over which the sunrises, around which many a star revolves, where there is neither night nordarkness, no wind of cold or heat, no sickness leading to a thousand kinds ofdeath, nor infection caused by the DaSvas, and whose summit is neverreached by the clouds. * This is the Mithra whose religion became so powerful in Alexandrianand Roman times. His sphere of action is defined in the Bundehesh. ^ Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a coin of King Huvishka, publishedby Percy Gardner. VOL. IX. 0. MITHKA. 18 THE IRANIAN CONQUEST Mylitta, a youthful and slender female, with well-developed breasts and broad hips, sometimes represented clothed in furs and sometimes nude.^ Like theforeign goddess to whom she was as-similated, she was the dispenser offertility and of love; the heroes ofantiquity, and even Ahura-mazd4 him-self, had vied with one another in theirworship of her, and she had lavishedher favours freely on all.^ The lessimportant Yazatas were hardly to bedistinguished from the innumerablemultitude of Fravashis. The Fravashis are the divine types of all intelligent beings. They were originally brought into being by Ahura- mazda as a distinct species from the human, but they had allowed themselves to be entangled in matter, and to be fettered in the bodies of men, in order to hasten the final destruction of the demons and the advent of the reign of good/ Once incarnate, a Fravashis devotes himself to the well-being
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