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CIT_ZOR_ANAHITA_HDT,ENT_ZOR_ANAHITA,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,"Herodotus, Histories",Book 1.131,"These are the customs, so far as I know, which the Persians practise:-Images and temples and altars they do not account it lawful to erect, nay they even charge with folly those who do these things; and this, as it seems to me, because they do not account the gods to be in the likeness of men, as do the Hellenes.",G. C. Macaulay,1890,https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707,primary-verbatim,"Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source).",2026-06-17,deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456),1,0,,