PRIMITIVE MYTHOLOGY—ANŪ—SEVEN EVIL SPIRITS—ACCADIAN POEM— 53 ASSUR—HEA—NIN-CI-GAL—SIN, THE MOON GOD—HEA-BANI—NERGAL— MERODACH—NEBO—NINIP—CHEMOSH—INCANTATIONS TO FIRE AND WATER—IM—BAAL—TAMMUZ—ISHTAR—ISHTAR OF ARBELA—ISHTAR OF ERECH—LEGEND OF ISHTAR AND IZDŪBAR—ISHTAR, QUEEN OF LOVE AND BEAUTY—THE DESCENT OF ISHTAR CHAPTER IV. PERSIAN MYTHOLOGY. THE COMMON SOURCE OF MYTHOLOGY—MYTHICAL MOUNTAINS—RIVERS— 86 MYTHICAL BIRDS—AHŪRA MAZDA—ATAR—THE STORM GOD—YIMA—THE CHINVAT BRIDGE—MITHRA—RÉSUMÉ DIVISION II.—PERIOD OF THE ZEND-AVESTA. CHAPTER V. THE ZEND-AVESTA. DERIVATION AND LANGUAGE—DIVISIONS—AGE OF THE ZEND-AVESTA— 109 MANUSCRIPTS—ZARATHUŚTRA—THE EARLY PĀRSĪS—THE MODERN PĀRSĪS CHAPTER VI. THE TEACHINGS OF THE ZEND-AVESTA. THE GĀTHAS—THE WAIL OF THE KINE—THE LAST GĀTHA—THE MARRIAGE 127 SONG—THE YASNA—COMMENTARY ON THE FORMULAS—THE YASNA HAPTANG-HĀITI—THE SRAŌSHA YAŚT—THE YASNA CONCLUDING CHAPTER VII. TEACHINGS OF THE ZEND-AVESTA, CONCLUDED. THE VENDĪDAD—FARGARD II—THE VARA OF YIMA—THE LAWS OF 146 PURIFICATION—DISPOSITION OF THE DEAD—PUNISHMENTS—THE PLACE OF REWARD—THE VISPARAD—TEACHING OF THE MODERN PĀRSĪS DIVISION III.—THE TIME OF THE MOHAMMEDAN CONQUEST AND THE KORĀN. CHAPTER VIII. THE KORĀN. THE SUCCESSOR OF THE ZEND-AVESTA—AUTHOR OF THE KORĀN—FIRST 165 REVELATIONS—THE HIGRAH—CONTINUED WARFARE—DEATH OF MOHAMMED—RECENSION OF THE TEXT—TEACHING OF THE KORĀN— HEAVEN—HELL—PREDESTINATION—POLYGAMY—LITERARY STYLE OF THE KORĀN DIVISION IV.—THE PERIOD SUCCEEDING THE MOHAMMEDAN CONQUEST. CHAPTER IX. THE ANWĀR-I-SUHALI. HISTORY OF THE WORK—PREFACE—THE BEES AND THEIR HABITS—THE 189 TWO PIGEONS—THE BLIND MAN AND HIS WHIP—AMICABLE INSTRUCTION—THE PIGEONS AND THE RAT—THE ANTELOPE AND THE CROW—THE ELEPHANT AND THE JACKAL—GEMS FROM THE HITOPADEŚA CHAPTER X. PERSIAN POETRY. SEVEN ERAS—THE FIRST PERIOD—THE HOMER OF ĪRĀN—THE SHĀH 214 NĀMAH—HISTORY OF THE PERSIAN EPIC—FIRDUSĪ—INVECTIVE— MŪTESHIM—THE SHĀH’S REPENTANCE—DEATH OF FIRDUSĪ—THE POEM CHAPTER XI. STORY OF THE SHĀH NĀMAH. SĀM SUWĀR—THE SĪMǕRGH’S NEST—THE FATHER’S DREAM—RǕDABEH—THE 228 MARRIAGE—RUSTEM—THE TǕRĀNIAN INVASION—THE WHITE DEMON CHAPTER XII. THE HEFT-KHĀN, OR SEVEN LABORS OF RUSTEM.