Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Languages, Art and Customs, Volume 2H. Holt, 1877 - Animism |
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... Parsi exiles landed in Gujarat , they described their reli- gion in an official document as being the worship of Agni or Fire , thus claiming for themselves a place among recog- nized Hindu sects . In modern times , though for the most ...
... Parsi exiles landed in Gujarat , they described their reli- gion in an official document as being the worship of Agni or Fire , thus claiming for themselves a place among recog- nized Hindu sects . In modern times , though for the most ...
Page 329
... Parsi , in passages of his formularies of confession , still keeps alive the old antagonism . I repent , he says , of all kinds of sins which the evil Ahriman produced amongst the creatures of Ormazd in opposition . " That which was the ...
... Parsi , in passages of his formularies of confession , still keeps alive the old antagonism . I repent , he says , of all kinds of sins which the evil Ahriman produced amongst the creatures of Ormazd in opposition . " That which was the ...
Page 374
... Parsi prays : “ Of my sins which I have committed against the ruler Ormazd , against men , and the different kinds of men . Deceit , contempt , idol - worship , lies , I repent of . . . . . All and every kind of sin which men have ...
... Parsi prays : “ Of my sins which I have committed against the ruler Ormazd , against men , and the different kinds of men . Deceit , contempt , idol - worship , lies , I repent of . . . . . All and every kind of sin which men have ...
Page 400
... Parsi ceremony Izeshne , formal successor of this bloody rite , requires no animal to be killed , but it suffices to ... Parsis , ' Bombay , 1862 , p . 238 . 3 Hamilton in ' As . Res . ' vol . ii . p . 342 . children of five years old ...
... Parsi ceremony Izeshne , formal successor of this bloody rite , requires no animal to be killed , but it suffices to ... Parsis , ' Bombay , 1862 , p . 238 . 3 Hamilton in ' As . Res . ' vol . ii . p . 342 . children of five years old ...
Page 418
... Parsis , nor on the drunken orgies of the worship of Dionysos in ancient Greece , we find more exact Old World analogues of the ecstatic medicaments used in the lower culture . Such are the decoctions of thalassægle which Pliny speaks ...
... Parsis , nor on the drunken orgies of the worship of Dionysos in ancient Greece , we find more exact Old World analogues of the ecstatic medicaments used in the lower culture . Such are the decoctions of thalassægle which Pliny speaks ...
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