The Magi

A. Berriedale Keith

doi:10.1017/S0035869X00048851

The Magi

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011

A. Berriedale Keith

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Type: Miscellaneous Communications
Information: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , October 1915 , pp. 790 - 799

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0035869X00048851 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1915

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^{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

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