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The Magi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1915

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References

page 791 note 1 Carnoy, , Le Muséon, ix, 129–58.Google Scholar

page 792 note 1 Early Zoroastrianism, p. 430.Google Scholar

page 792 note 2 In Herodotus, (vii, 37)Google Scholar the Magi claim that the moon was пροδέκτωρ for them, the sun for the Greeks. This does not suit the theory of their being especially sun-worshippers.

page 792 note 3 pp. 513, 517, 520, 714.

page 792 note 4 xvii, 105.

page 792 note 5 p. 193.

page 793 note 1 So Hommel, , Geographie und Geschichte des alten Orients, p. 201.Google Scholar

page 793 note 2 Ap. Clem. Al. Strom. iii, 11.Google Scholar

page 794 note 1 Altiranisches Wörterbuch, 1822.Google Scholar

page 794 note 2 SBE. xviii, 418, 419.Google Scholar

page 794 note 3 It is perhaps right to point out that the attempt to use this sort of marriage as a proof of Iranian origin (JRAS. 1915, p. 400)Google Scholar is wholly illegitimate.

page 794 note 4 p. 213.

page 795 note 1 pp. 332–40.

page 795 note 2 p. 5, n. 1.

page 796 note 1 p. 26, n. 1.

page 797 note 1 p. 26.

page 797 note 2 p. 22. Personally I doubt whether they are by any means as old.

page 797 note 3 The divergent opinions of Professor Moulton's authorities indicate their lack of value: see pp. 24 seqq.

page 798 note 1 Indien und das Christentum, pp. 290–2.Google Scholar

page 798 note 2 pp. 18 seqq.

page 799 note 1 See Hommel, , PSBA. 1899, p. 132.Google Scholar