442 ANIMAL REMAINS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT ANAU. 
nor should we need the corroborative evidence of the terra-cotta figurines of cattle 
that were used in Anau 3000 B.c. In any event we may be permitted to suggest 
this hypothesis, leaving its fate to be decided after further investigations. 
In the cattle-cult of the followers of Zoroaster—the Parsees—whose ancestors 
down to the end of the Sassanian dynasty ruled over Anau, we may see an especially 
important point in connection with precedents of the culture-sphere of ancient 
Turkestan. The Zend-Avesta contains a hymn lauding the value of cattle, which 
may indicate that a people who could hold cattle in such high estimation in their 
own culture might really have accomplished the domestication of the ox. 
“In the ox is our strength, in the ox is our speech, 
in the ox is our victory, in the ox is our nourishment, 
in the ox is our clothing, in the ox is our agriculture 
which furnishes to us food.’’ 
