Note 794 — Chapter XII · THE WORSHIP OF MITHRAS
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Herodotus, Bk I. c. 131. Cf. F. Max Müller, Hibbert Lectures, p. 276. The similarity of name between Varuna and the Greek Ouranos is fairly obvious. Prof. Hope Moulton, Early Zoroastrianism, 1913, pp. 391, 392, n. 3, argues that the Persian god of the sky was called Dyaush or Zeus.