"When Ahab looks up, however, he is not reminded of three burning crosses; he does not invoke Golgotha or the crucifixion of Christ. Instead he invokes a different—and older—religious tradition, Zoroastrianism: “Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas I as Persian once did worship, till in the sacramental act so burned by thee, that to this hour I bear the scar; I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance. To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e’en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed. No fearless fool now fronts thee.” (382)"

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