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¹ Thus Moulton (*Early Zoroastrianism*, p. 150; *Early Rel. Poetry of Persia*, pp. 34 ff.) argues that the high Ahura worship comes from ancestor worship as contrasted with the inferior worship of Daēvas, nature deities. But he himself (*Early Zoroastrianism*, pp. ix, 344, &c.) renders Ahura by ‘lord’, which disposes of any connexion with ancestor worship. Varuṇa sufficiently refutes for India and Ahura for Iran Schroeder’s doctrine that morality and ancestor worship are more closely related than the worship of the gods and conduct.