An Introduction to the Study of Some Living Religions of the East
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ii] THE LATER AVESTA 77 no mention of Miihra in the Gotham, and it has been sup- posed that the omission is intentional. He would not approve of the worship of any God save Ahura, and yet the worship of Mithra was too popular to attack. 1 In the later Avestd, he is clearly one of the chief divinities of the people. To him is devoted a long Yasht which may serve to illustrate the esteem in which men held him. Ahura 2 created him as worthy of sacrifice and prayer as himself. To him Ahura himself ...sacrifices. As the god of light, he sees all, and can defend to the uttermost those that call on him. He is the lord of wide pastures who has a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes. From him all the evil spirits flee in terror and men pray that never may they have to withstand ; ' the rush of the angry lord who goes and rushes from a thousand sides against his foe, he, of the ten thou- sand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god. " The lord of light, he is the lord of truth, and lying he hates, and severely punishes.
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