106. Goethe, Faust.
107. Die Persischen Keilinscriften (Leipzig, 1847.) See also the account of the inscription at Behistun, in Lenormant's "Manual of Ancient History."
108. Rawlinson, Five Great Monarchies.—Duncker, Geschichte des Alterthums, B. II.—Heeren, The Persians.—Fergusson, Illustrated Hand-Book of Architecture.—Creuzer, Schriften. See also the works of Oppert, Hinks, Menant, and Lassen.
109. Vendidad, Fargard, XIX.—XLVI. Spiegel, translated into English by Bleek.
110. Herodotus, I. 131.
111. Herodotus, in various parts of his history.
112. "Plutarch's Morals. Translated from the Greek by several hands. London. Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship in Pater-noster Eow. 1718." This passage concerning Zoroaster is from the "Isis and Osiris" in Vol. IV. of this old translation. We have retained the antique terminology and spelling. (See also the new American edition of this translation. Boston, Little and Brown, 1871.)
113. This is the Haôma spoken of on page 202.
114. These, with Ormazd, are the seven Amshaspands enumerated on page 197.
115. See the account, on page 195, of these four periods of three thousand years each.