“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)

Per the Public Domain Review, a Zoroastrian text from eighteen ninety-two known as the Mâr-Nâmeh—the Book for Taking Omens from Snakes—was translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society. The work offers a historical window into how Persian spiritual traditions engaged with serpent symbolism for divination.

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