 | Luke Howard - 1833 - 418 pages
...worship. Near the altar, about three feet high, is a large hollow cane, from the end of which issues a blue flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, but seemingly more pure. These Indians affirm that this flame has continued ever since the flood, and... | |
 | Naval art and science - 1884 - 1126 pages
...horizontal gap two feet from the ground, nearly six long and about three broad, out of which issues a flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows, it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather.... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - Ethnology - 1859 - 416 pages
...in mysterious currents in several localities. One, especially, near the city of Baku, is an object of devotion to the Guebres, who make pilgrimages to...igneous aspect, have been Chaldaic or Arabian ; for Sabaeanism, as it is called, or the worship of the stars and planets, is pre-emimently Semitic. I shall... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...near the altar, about three feet high, there is a large hollow cave, from the end of which issues a flame, in colour and gentleness, not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits. The Indians affirm that this flame has continued burning some thousands of years, and believe it will... | |
 | Charles Marvin - Baku (Azerbaijan) - 1884 - 540 pages
...gap, two feet from the ground, nearly six long, and about three broad, out of which issues a constant flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows, it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather.... | |
 | Sir Boverton Redwood - Natural gas - 1896 - 478 pages
...horizontal gap, 2 feet from the ground, nearly 6 long, and about 3 broad, out of which issues a constant flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows, it rises sometimes 8 feet high, but much lower in still weather.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 232 pages
...gap two feet from the ground, nearly six long, and about three broad, out of which issues a constant flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather.... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - Iran - 1911 - 536 pages
...now worship : near the altar, about 3 feet high, is a large hollow cane, from the end of which issues a blue flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, but seemingly more pure. These INDIANS affirm, that this flame has continued ever since the flood,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1913 - 744 pages
...gap, two feet from the ground, nearly six long, and about three broad, out of which issues a constant flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. When the wind blows it rises sometimes eight feet high, but much lower in still weather.... | |
 | James George Frazer - Magic - 1914 - 346 pages
...worship ; near the altar, about three feet high, is a large hollow cane, from the end of which issues a blue flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, but seemingly more pure. These Indians affirm that this flame has continued ever since the flood, and... | |
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... broad, out of which issues a constant flame, in colour and gentleness not unlike a lamp that burns with spirits, only more pure. 
