BABYLON AND PERSIA

IVCLASSIFIED CONTENTS..and follower of Zarathushtra. § 12. Loss of the greatestpart of the Zoroastrian literature. § 13. Survival of sometexts.The parts of the Avesta as we have it. § 14. The'Bundehesh ;its lateness and its contents.III..Aryan Myths 34-SS§§ I, 2. Impossibility of invention in a strict sense. § 3.Zarathushtra not an inventor, but a reformer.- § 4. TheHindus and Eranians sister nations of the Aryan or Indo-- European race. § 5. The Airyana-Vaeja, or first Aryanhome of Eranian tradition. § 6. The Rig-Veda, the mostancient sacred book of the Aryan Hindus, and its indica¬tions concerning the religion of the primitive Aryas. § 7.The powers of nature the gods of the Aryas. § 8. TheAryan sky-gods, Dyaus and Vdruna. § 9. The Aryanlight-god, Mitra. § 10. The Aryan fire-god, Agni.§ II. Aryan-dualism. Gods and demons, light and dark¬ness, rain and drought. § 12. Aryan storm-myth.§ 13. Indra, tlie god of the thunderbolt. § 14. Vritra andAhi, the cloud-fiends. §§ 15, i6. Soma, plant, beverageand drink. 17, 18. EfTicacy of sacred texts Mantra andof sacrifice. § ig. Crossness of some of these concep¬tions. § 30. Richness of Aryan mythical epos. § 21.King Yama and the Pitris. § 22. Aryan reverence towardthe spirits of the departed the Pitris. § 23. The Pitrispass into heroic epos.IV.Aryan Myths in the AvestaTheir Allegori¬cal Transformation . . . 56-94§ I. Enervating influence of the Indian -climate on theAryan population.g 2. Bracing and hardening influence ofthe soil and climate of Eran.The nature of Eran all in ex¬tremes. § 3. It intensifies the feeling of dualism, and de¬velops the battle-myth almost exclusively.§ 4. Spiritualtransformation of Aryan myths in Eran. § 5. Ahura-Mazda, the supreme God and Creator, the successor of the