The Vedic fathers of geology

80 THe Vepic FATHERS oF GEOLOGY.

me). Limplore thee ( Ahurmazd the wise ) weeping, thou living god”. * # * * }4 (46 )-2

“The sway is given into the hands ot the priests and prophets of idols, who, by their atrocious actions endeavour to destroy the human lite, (10) -11 | (10 Martin Haug’s Religion of the Parsees. Edition 1862. pp. 152, 155, 156, 157, from which these extracts haye been taken ).

All this evidently refers to the religious schism, the subsequent fight, the persecution, and finally the expulsion from A ryfvarta of the leader and his followers, who thereafter took shelter in Iran and had even gone as far as the Arctic Regions, which they had colonized along with us ( the Indo-A’ryans ), in the latter part of the Tertiary Period and before the advent of the Great Ice Age, when theclimate of the place was mild and genial. For, the Vendidad expressly says : (40 ) “Once a year, one sees there (2. e. in the Arctic Retions ) Stars, Moon, and Sun, rising and setting ”

(41) “ And they think a day what is a year”. ( vide Vendidad, Second Chapter, and Dr. Haug’s Parsee Religion. Hdition 1862. p. 205 )

But, six months’ day and six months’ night is the sure characteristic of the Arctic