 | James Gardner - 2004 - 534 σελίδες
...they have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...loftiest mountains, and there to offer sacrifice to Zeus, which is the name they give to the whole circuit of the firmament. They likewise offer to the... | |
 | Mark Allen McDonald - 2004 - 334 σελίδες
...They have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the...have the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine. (Inquiries, 1.131) The only gods whose worship has been handed down to the Persians are the sun, moon,... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1931 - 788 σελίδες
...i. 181. "This comes," says Herodotus1, "from their not believing the gods to have the same nature as men, as the Greeks imagine. Their wont however is...loftiest mountains, and there to offer sacrifice to Zeus, which is the name they give to the whole circle of the firmament. They likewise offer to the... | |
 | Anthropological Society of Bombay - 1907 - 718 σελίδες
...Persians have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the gods to have the same nature with man.'' This idea of the Persian Aryans is evidently the very contrary of the phallic idea which conceives... | |
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Persians to observe are the following: they have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars, and consider the use of them a sign of folly. This comes, I think, from their not believing the gods to have the same nature with men, as the Greeks imagine. 
