Identifier: cyclopediauniver1950ridp (find matches)
Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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minently the Angel of theLight, and, since light re-^ eals all things, Sraosha wasthe revealer of the will ofMazdao. Primarily, he wasmerely an attribute of theMost High, one of his shin-ings forth. Another of theseattributes was called Vohu-Mano, meaning the goodmind; another was Mazda,meaning the wise; andthe third was Asha, mean-ing the true. It was as if the at-tributes of the primitive Godhead weredetached into personalities, under thefigure of angels, or messengers. After Sraosha, the next of the divinebeings, as conceived by the primitiveIranian, was Armati, mean-ing the same as the Gaia, orDemeter, of the Greeks, and the Ceresof the Romans. The earth was con- ,. ii 1 Myth and -wor- the earth, who was ^i^ip ^f Armati. THE IRANIANS.—RELIGION. 587 ceived to be a beneficent power. From 1 the contest with physical nature manthe mere physical fact of giving food was helped by the invisible spirit of the and yielding increase, the mind of the I earth. When the adverse forces of the
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