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The ritual of the Avesta appears at times to describe a worship of the element itself: in Fargard xviii the fire implores the householder to rise, wash his hands, and put pure wood on the flame; Yaçna lxi is a hymn of homage and petition addressed to the fire, which is called the son of Ahura Mazda the householder asks that all the blessings of life may be his as a reward for his sacrifice.
That accordance has now been discovered to be world-wide. Medieval Christianity preferred the direct agency of the Devil. Primitive Christianity leaned to the opinion that the Grecian and Roman myth makers had stolen from the sacred writings of the Jews. Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics. Nöldeke, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, Bd. iii., s. 131. Spiegel to Yaçna, 29, of the Khordah-Avesta.
In 1826 the Danish philologist Rask, and later Eugène Burnouf, with his profound knowledge of Sanskrit, and by the help of a translation in that language recently discovered in India, turned once more to the study of the Zend. In 1834 Burnouf published a masterly treatise on the Yacna, which marked an epoch.
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