DIVISION I. The Early Tablets and Mythology. CHAPTER IV. PERSIAN MYTHOLOGY. DIVISION II. The Period of the Zend-Avesta. DIVISION III. The Time of the Mohammedan Conquest and the Kor?n. DIVISION IV. The Period Succeeding the Mohammedan Conquest. Footnotes have been re-sequenced for uniqueness, have been collected at the end of the text, and are linked for ease of reference. The author notes, in her guide to pronunciation, that the diacritical marks “have been largely omitted” in the footnotes. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. Any corrections are indicated using an underline highlight. Placing the cursor over the correction will produce the original text in a small popup. In the index, references to footnotes are hyperlinked to the specific note, rather than the page it appears on. Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text. PERSIAN LITERATURE |