Hannah Adams

“ A combustible ground, about ten miles distant from Baku, a city in the north of Persia, is the scene of their devotions, where are several small temples: in one of which the Guebres pretend to preserve the sacred flame of the universal fire, which rises from the end of a large hollow cane, stuck into the ground, resembling a lamp burning with pure spirits ”

“ The Chaldeans and Persians were inquisitive people; they even sent students to India and Egypt; and, when the Jews were in a state of captivity among them, they would naturally inquire into the mysteries of their religion.
Original footnotes ↑ Of the two opposing principles, the good one was called Orosmasdes, and the evil, Ahriman. Some have asserted, that the ancient Persians held a co-eternity of these two principles. Other writers say, that the evil principle was created out of darkness, and that Oromasdes first subsisted alone; that by him the light and darkness were created ”