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Updated: June 14, 2025
His robe was of pure white wool, thrown over a tunic of silk; and a white, pointed cap, with long lapels at the sides, rested on his flowing black hair. It was the dress of the ancient priesthood of the Magi, called the fire-worshippers.
Isfendiyár afterwards invaded Hindústán and Arabia, and several other countries, and successfully established the religion of the fire-worshippers in them all. Where'er he went he was received With welcome, all the world believed, And all with grateful feelings took The Holy Zendavesta-book, Proud their new worship to declare, The worship of Isfendiyár.
The only mode of disposal which completely avoids the defilement of every element is consumption of the dead by living beings; and the worship of the elements leads on naturally to this treatment of corpses. At present the Guebres, or Fire-worshippers, the descendants of the ancient Persians, expose all their dead, with the intention that they shall be devoured by birds of prey.
Shortly after Gotama's death, a council of five hundred ecclesiastics assembled for the purpose of settling the religion. A century later a second council met to regulate the monastic institution; and in B.C. 241, a third council, for the expulsion of fire-worshippers.
'He has been absent six months; he has been in Egypt. 'To see the temples of the fire-worshippers, and to shoot crocodiles. They all do that, said the Consul Pasqualigo. 'How glad he must be to get back to Jerusalem, said Barizy of the Tower. 'There may be larger cities, but there are certainly none so beautiful. 'The most beautiful city in the world is the city of Venice, said Pasqualigo.
In this district also stands the city of Baku, held sacred by the Parsees, or fire-worshippers, who have here built a temple, in which are kept burning perpetual fires, fed by the naphtha springing from the ground. During the past year, 1866, a small mud volcano has been formed in the flanks of Mount Etna. It began with an outburst of strong jets of boiling water.
The Magi were made to form the great council of the nation. While they lent their support to the crown, the crown upheld them against all impugners, and enforced by pains and penalties their decisions. Persecution was adopted and asserted as a principle of action without any disguise. By an edict of Artaxerxes, all places of worship were closed except the temples of the fire-worshippers.
The third dream, about four men pulling at a fine piece of cloth, each towards himself, without tearing it, is thus explained by him: "Know that the piece of cloth is the religion divine end that the four men who pull at it have come to preserve it. One of the religions is that of the Dihkans, the fire-worshippers, who may not take in hand the Barsom without pronouncing the prayer formula.
Her story is that of Juliet, and she and her lover united in death, as they could not be in life are buried beneath a mound in the centre of he valley. The Indians of that region had towns built for permanency, and possessed some knowledge of the arts, while in religion their belief and rites were curiously like those of the Persian fire-worshippers.
The life and reign of the caliph Omar, distinguished by such great and striking events, were at length brought to a sudden and sanguinary end. Among the Persians who had been brought as slaves to Medina, was one named Firuz, of the sect of the Magi, or fire-worshippers. Being taxed daily by his master two pieces of silver out of his earnings, he complained of it to Omar as an extortion.
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