The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 1861, Vol. 18 (Classic Reprint)
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-12-11
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780243937646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Universalist Quarterly and General Review, 1861, Vol. 18 The Bull and Cow. The original Mazdayasnas were evidently a very simple pastoral people. Their wants are few, and their aspirations seldom lofty. In their earliest prayers and hymns their desires are for rain and fruitful seasons, for health, strength, long life, numerous children, and sometimes for immortality. They adore the Dei as the Creator of the cow,1 and pray for pastures and fo der 'ffor the well-created cow. This peculiar regard for the most useful of all the brute creation is evidenced alike by the earliest and the latest monuments of the faith. On pressing occasions they even declare themselves worship pers of the cow,2 but in this they entirely overstate the point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.