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TİR YAST.
93
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
Yatha a hû vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holi
ness ....
1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathustra, saying: 'We worship the lordship and mastership [of Tistrya), whereby he protects the Moon, the dwelling, the food, when my glorious stars come along and impart their gifts ? to men. I will sacrifice unto the star Tistrya, that gives the fields their share [of waters].
2. "We offer up libations unto Tistrya, the bright and glorious star, that gives happy dwelling and good dwelling; the white, shining, seen afar, and piercing ; the health-bringing, loud-snorting 3, and high, piercing from afar with its shining, undefiled rays; and unto the waters of the wide sea, the Vanguhi of wide renown“, and the species o of the Bull, made by Mazda, the awful kingly Glory, and the Fravashi of the holy Spitama Zarathustra.
3. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto the star Tistrya.
'Unto Tistrya, the bright and glorious star, we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightlyspoken words.
The rain.
1 Doubtful. : In his disguise as a horse ; $ 18. * See Vend., pp. 3, 5, note 2.
Năma; see Études Iraniennes, II, 124.
Cf. p. 47.
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