Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . IIAO.MA-.MOKTAR AND PESTLE. HAOMA-STRAINER.. IIARESMA (1;ARS().M) WITH STAND. lO. SACRIFICLVL IMlLF.MENTS USED IN TARSI WORSHIP. 119 I20 MEDIA, BADYLON, AND PERSTA. noxious feature, llic iiUoxicatioii in which it toooften (.nded in huha, and becomes purely synibohcal.Such, too, is the character of tlie otlier offerings,consisting of a few bits of meat (to whicli the mod-ern Parsis have substituted a httle milk in a cup),some small cakes, and some fruit, all o

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Media, Babylon and Persia : including a study of the Zend-Avesta or religion of Zoroaster, from the fall of Nineveh to the Persian war . IIAO.MA-.MOKTAR AND PESTLE. HAOMA-STRAINER.. IIARESMA (1;ARS().M) WITH STAND. lO. SACRIFICLVL IMlLF.MENTS USED IN TARSI WORSHIP. 119 I20 MEDIA, BADYLON, AND PERSTA. noxious feature, llic iiUoxicatioii in which it toooften (.nded in huha, and becomes purely synibohcal.Such, too, is the character of tlie otlier offerings, consisting of a few bits of meat (to whicli the mod-ern Parsis have substituted a httle milk in a cup), some small cakes, and some fruit, all of which, more-over (representing the ari(^us kiiuls of human food), are not consumed in the fire of the altai, but onlyheld up before it, presented, so to speak, as asymbolical offering and for consecration. TheYasna and Vispcrcd continually invoke and glorifythese parts of the daily sacrifice ; the HaOMA, theMyazda (offering of meat or milk, cake and fruit), and the Zaotiira (holy water), together with theBareSMA (bundle of sacred twigs), and the sacrificialvessels—-mortar and pestle, strainer, cups, etc.—areexalted as the most fiend-smiting of weapons. Thesacred mortar,