[31] Certain Persian heretics of our day, on the contrary, adore only the evil god, for, they say, the principle of the good being in itself good and indulgent does not require appeasing. They are called Yezidis (worshippers of the devil).
[32] Herod., i., 131.
[33] i., 138.
[34] Herodotus mentions 20, but we find as many as 31 enumerated in the inscriptions.
[35] Herod., iii., 34, 35. Compare also iii., 78, 79; and the book of Esther.
[36] M. Dieulafoi.