"Zend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... despite the mathematical plainness of the facts, other Alemanni agree neither with Muellerus, nor yet with Benfeius, and will neither hear that Athene was the Dawn, nor yet that she is "the feminine of the Zend Thraetana athwyana." Lo, you! how Prellerus goes about to show that her name is drawn not from Ahana and the old Brachmanae, nor athwyana and the old Medes, but from "the root [Greek text], whence [Greek text], the air, or [Greek text], whence [Greek ...
— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang
... souls Animal worship Effect of Egyptian polytheism on the Jews Assyrian deities Phoenician deities Worship of the sun Oblations and sacrifices Idolatry the sequence of polytheism Religion of the Persians Character of the early Iranians Comparative purity of the Persian religion Zoroaster Magism Zend-Avesta ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume I • John Lord
... The Zend, or Zendavesta, is the sacred book ascribed to Zoroaster, or Zerdusht, the founder or reformer of the Magian religion. The modern edition or paraphrase of this work, called the Sadda, written in the Persian of the day, was, I believe, composed about ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge
... the friends of Classical, Scandinavian, and Oriental literature form themselves into an Association for the Rescue of the many ancient MSS. in the Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norwegian, Zend, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Abyssinian, Ethiopian, Hindostanee, Persian, Syriac, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Turkish, and Chinese languages:—that application be made to government for the pecuniary furtherance of this enterprise;—and that the active co-operation of all foreign ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851 • Various
... before the days of the Son of man. Especially pronounced had been the teachings of the Egyptians that there is another world. In their Acadian hymns the Chaldaeans had dimly foretold a future life. The belief of the Parsees, as expressed in their Zend-Avesta, had included a place of darkness for the evil soul and a reward for the good in the realm of light. The Hindus had declared, in their Rig-Veda, their beautiful conception of the immortality of the soul, and had written ...
— An Easter Disciple • Arthur Benton Sanford
... makes yourzelf," she gries, "a dankless renegade To von who, oftendimes invoked, yet nefer vailed her aid To charm avay your lonely dimes, and soffogate your care! If dat's your leedle games, mein vriend, dake my advice—bevare!" "I'd gladly zend mein zoul inzide a himmeldinted gloud, Bot as a Penedick," he zaid, "I vill not pe allowed! I dells you vrank"—(I haf exblained he vas a vonny vellow!)— "Mitout mein bipe, ze honnymoon shall nod daste quide so mellow!" "Enoff!" she said, "you vatch your eye, and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 • Various
... Egyptian philosophy that it found in the Encyclopaedia Britannica; annexed as many of the Vedas as had been translated into French or English, and talked of all the rest; built in the German versions of what is left of the Zend Avesta; encouraged White, Gray and Black Magic, including spiritualism, palmistry, fortune-telling by cards, hot chestnuts, double-kernelled nuts and tallow droppings; would have adopted Voodoo and Oboe had it known anything about them, and ...
— Soldiers Three • Rudyard Kipling |
