Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . €^1 ..* .-^ <^, ^^fc^. seen cominj^- flown the mountain sing-ing- with a heavyburden of fuel on her back, and in her arms the child towhich she has g-iven birth during- the day. Even thisthe men do not appreciate or reward, they will not hesi-tate, when it is raining, to drag the women from thetent to make room for a favorite steed. Their chief priests are called Sheikhs and arc hon-ored as gods. They kneel before a chief priest and kisshis hands, clothes and shoes, and ask for his b
Darkness and daybreak; personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia . €^1 ..* .-^ <^, ^^fc^. seen cominj^- flown the mountain sing-ing- with a heavyburden of fuel on her back, and in her arms the child towhich she has g-iven birth during- the day. Even thisthe men do not appreciate or reward, they will not hesi-tate, when it is raining, to drag the women from thetent to make room for a favorite steed. Their chief priests are called Sheikhs and arc hon-ored as gods. They kneel before a chief priest and kisshis hands, clothes and shoes, and ask for his penitent ones he promises that he will ask God toforgive their sins. He has absolute power over believe his words as inspired truth and obey im-plicith. I knew of one Sheikh who bathed every morn-ing in a spring and the people would flock to this placeto draw of the water to drink, in which he had washedhis body. The father of the late Sheikh Obeidullahassisted the Sultan in the late Russian-Turkish more than 100,000 Kurds to light againstRussia. He told them not to be afraid of the big- can-
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