But these names shall come in to keep him from behind and to keep him in front ... from the evil ones, bent on mischief, and from that fiend which is all death—Angra Mainyu.
It will be as if there were a thousand men watching over one man."
—Trans. Zend-Avesta: Sacred Books of the East.
Max Muller, ed. V. 4, 23, 31.
PART OF ARCHER'S FRIEZE IN AN ANCIENT PERSIAN PALACE.