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| CIT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA_HDT | ENT_ZOR_AHURA_MAZDA | 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 |