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Updated: May 7, 2025
In fact, so close were the Cossacks and the Indian troops to each other, both on the Pamirs and on the western slopes of the Hindu Kush, that a collision might be expected at any moment.
"In that case show me the road to the priestess," said Phut. "Remember that after sunset Thou art to have a guide for me, and to-morrow my bags and casket, otherwise I shall complain to the court." Then Phut left the gallery and went to his chamber on a higher story. Asarhadon with anger approached a table at which Phoenician merchants were drinking, and called aside one of them named Kush.
The K'un-lun Mountains With reference to the K'un-lun Mountains, designated in Chinese mythology as the abode of the gods the ancestors of the Chinese race it should be noted that these are identified not with the range dividing Tibet from Chinese Turkestan, but with the Hindu Kush.
A Zulu explained to Callaway that his people forgot those who died long ago they were supposed to be not helpful and hope of gain has always been the basis of worship. Among the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush it is the custom to erect an effigy to the memory of every adult one year after his decease.
Some have thought that we have here an indication of a second invasion composed of Aryans who remained in the mountainous districts north of the Hindu Kush when the first detachment moved south and who developed there somewhat different customs. It is also possible that the Atharva Veda may represent the religious ideas of these second invaders.
By the valor and conduct of Smbat, the Persian dominion was re-established in the north-eastern mountain region, from Mount Demavend to the Hindu Kush; the Koushans, Turks, and Ephthalitos were held in check; and the tide of barbarism, which had threatened to submerge the empire on this side, was effectually resisted and rolled back.
And the whole party set off at a brisk trot, I keeping silence, and thinking with no little trepidation of what I was about to encounter. "The lips of the Bahawder are closed," said one. "Where are those birds of Paradise, his long-tailed words? they are imprisoned between the golden bars of his teeth!" "Kush," said his companion, "be quiet!
And finally, you call me by name." "It isn't so very remarkable, when you come to consider it," she returned soberly. "Mr. David Amber is rather well known, even in his own country. I might very well have seen your photograph published in connection with some review of let me see.... Your latest book was entitled 'The Peoples of the Hindu Kush, wasn't it? You see, I haven't read it."
So they resigned themselves to fore-ordained Fate and fortune and I submitted to the judgment of Allah, enduring patiently that which he decreed unto me of affliction, till He took my soul and made me to dwell in my grave. And if thou ask of my name, I am Kush, the son of Shaddad son of Ad the Greater." And upon the tablets were engraved these lines,
She shall find that her woman's wit cannot match me at my own game, and that my father's son, the Royal Prince of Kush and the Pharaoh who shall be, is more than the equal of a girl. I hold thy wage, Meriamun! "'Go then, Prince, she cried, 'and after sunset meet me in my antechamber. Bring a scribe to score the games; Rei shall be the judge, and hold the stakes.
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