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SOME ANCIENT AND EXTINCT FAITHS
mingling of the conflict" (Bundabish, i. 18). For, the final overthrow of evil not being possible till the appearance of the righteous man, Auhar Mazda, incapable of accomplishing the impossible, is powerless to obtain a victory over the hated rival. This is the period of the "intermingling of the conflict," during which the soul passes through the minerai, the vegetable, the animal and also through unsuitable human forms.
The principal angels are:
(1) Vohu Mavalı=Good Thought; (2) Asha Valishta= Perfect Righteousness; (3) Khshathra Vaiiya=Wished-for Kingdom ; (4) Spenta Armaiti=Holy Harmony (piety); (5) Haurvatât=Saving Healili; ard
(6) Ameretât = Immortality.
These are the six archangels. The demons are their opposites. The chief of fiends is, of course, Abarman, whose place is filth and who does not think, nor speak, nor act for the welfare of the creatures of Auhar Mazd (Bundahish, xxviii, rand 2). Amongst the others, the business of Akoman is that he "gave vile thoughts and discord"; Taromat is the producer of disobedience; Mitokht is the liar; Arask is malice; Akatash represents perversion ; Az, greediness ; Aeshm, wrath ; and Nas causes pollution and contamination. And“ with every one of them are many demons and fiends co-operating....... There are demons of rain, pain, and growing old ....., and bringers of stench, decay and
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