Persians sacrifice horses to the sun, i. 315;
their reverence for fire, v. 174 sq.;
their festival of the dead, vi. 68;
annually expel demons, ix. 145;
the Sacaea celebrated by the, ix. 402;
their marriages at the vernal equinox, ix. 406 n. 3;
celebrate a festival of fire at the winter solstice, x. 269
Personation of gods by priests, v. 45, 46 sqq.;
by human victims, ix. 275 sqq.
Personification of abstract ideas not primitive, iv. 253;