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NEXT-OF-KIN MARRIAGES.

Ahura Mazda, and recorded as such in the Dinkard, of the changes and events which were to happen during the millenniums that followed the age of Zoroaster, there is one which predicts as a calamity to befall the religious welfare of the early Sâsânian period, the birth of Mazdak in this world, the abominable influence of his creed and the consequent beastly condition of his imbecile adherents. The passage in question may be rendered as follows:—

("Ahura Mazda spoke"): "And again of the adversaries of the Mazdayasnân religion, and of the disturbers of piety, the Aharmôg (Mazdak) and they who will be called also Mazdakians . . . . . . will declare one's offspring as fit for mutual intercourse, that is, they will announce intercourse with mothers, and they will be called wolves, since they will act like wolves, they will proceed according to their lustful desire just as one born of the wolf does with its daughter or mother, and they will also practice intercourse with their mothers, their women will live like sheep or goats."

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