Note 1165 — Chapter XIII · MANES AND THE MANICHAEANS (continued 2)
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Ormuzd, “the whole circuit of the sky,” although he calls him, more Graecorum, Zeus, “the sun and moon, the earth, fire, water and the winds,” were “the only gods whose worship had come down to the Persians from ancient times” in the days of Herodotus. Cf. Herodotus, Bk I. c. 131.