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We require that a man should be so large and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded, that he arose and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place. The pictures most credible to us are those of majestic men who prevailed at their entrance, and convinced the senses; as happened to the eastern magian who was sent to test the merits of Zertusht or Zoroaster [Zarathustra]. When a Yuani sage arrived at Balkh, the Persians tell us, Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country should assemble, and a golden chair was placed for the Yuani sage. Then the beloved Yezdam, the prophet of Zertusht, advanced into the midst of the assembly. The Yuani sage, on seeing the chief, said, ‘This form and this gait cannot lie, and nothing but truth can proceed from them.’1
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Character’, in Emerson’s Essays (New York: Dutton, 1906; reprinted 1980), pp. 263–4.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, in The Portable Nietzsche, trans. and ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Viking Press, 1968), hereafter ‘Z’, pp. 122–3
Friedrich Nietzsche, Kritische Studienausgabe, in 15 vols (KSA), Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, eds (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 1967–77 and 1988), 4, p. 12.
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Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, The Western Response to Zoroaster (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 21.
Ida Overbeck, quoted by Albrecht Bernoulli, Franz Overbeck und Friedrich Nietzsche: eine Freundschaft, 2 vols (Jena, 1908). See Ronald Hayman, Nietzsche: A Critical Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 245–6.
See G. S. Kirk and J. E. Raven, The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957), p. 65n.
See A. V. Williams Jackson, Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran (New York: Columbia University Press, 1926), p. 27.
See Wilhelm Geiger and Friedrich Heinrich Hugo Windishmann, Zarathustra in the Gathas and in the Greek and Roman Classics, trans. Darab Dastur Pshotan Sanjana, 2nd ed. (Leipzig: Otto Harrassowitz, 1899), p. 83.
See also Martin Haug, ‘History of the Researches into the Sacred Writings and Religion of the Parsis’, in Martin Haug Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, ed. E. W. West, 3rd ed., enlarged (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co, 1883), pp. 5–7.
See Z, p. 17 and Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann (together with On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale) (New York: Random House, 1967), p. 328
See Ronald Hayman, Nietzsche: A Critical Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 83–4
See C. G. Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934–1939, ed. James L. Jarret, in two volumes, Bollingen Series XCIX (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988), I, p. 4.
Cf. Roger Hollingrake, Nietzsche, Wagner and the Philosophy of Pessimism (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982), p. 144.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, with a Prelude of Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1974), 342, p. 274
Freny Mistry, Nietzsche and Buddhism: Prolegomenon to a Comparative Study (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981), p. 17.
Martin Haug, ‘The Zoroastrian Religion, as to Its Origin and Development’, in Martin Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, ed. E. W. West, 3rd ed., enlarged (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1883), p. 309.
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, The Western Response to Zoroaster (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 20.
Martin Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings and Religion of the Parsis, ed. E. W. West, 2nd ed. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1878), p. 303.
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (together with Ecce Homo, trans. Walter Kaufmann) (New York: Random House, 1967), Preface 3, p. 17
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, ‘Zoroastrianism and Parsiism’, in The New Encyclopaedia Brittanica, ed. Philip W. Goetz, 15 ed. (Chicago: Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1987) vol. 29, p. 1078.
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, The Western Response to Zoroaster (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958), p. 66.
Gêtha Ahunavaiti, Yas. xxxi, 9, in Haug, ‘The Zend-Avesta; or The Scripture of the Parsis’, in Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, ed. E. W. West, 3rd ed, enlarged (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1883), pp. 151–2.
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Higgins, K.M. (1999). Waves of Uncountable Laughter. In: Lippitt, J. (eds) Nietzsche’s Futures. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27052-1_5
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