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the chief's house. Sayipuia came out dressed in instead of there being a row, I was applauded for his best, which was a very handsome check cloth,what I bad done, and the next day this same young with an enormous plome made of the tail feathers fellow and I became quite friendly! of the bhim-ráj, or mocking bird, in his hair, and a spear in his right hand. He called me to him close to the gydl, and both of us, holding the spear in our right hands, simultaneously plunged it into the brate's ribs. Sayipnia drew out the spear and taking the warm blood in his hand smeared his and my hands, face and legs with its
THE TEMPTATION OF ZOROASTER. blood, and then holding up the spear called out in a loud voice that all might bear as follows :
BY L. C. CASARTELLL "When the big streams and little streams shall dry up in these hills, then and not before sball
[In the long 19th fargard or chapter of the this wbite man be mine enemy: what is mine is
Vendidad, the first book contained in the Avesta, bin, and by this oath you all know him to be my
occurs this remarkable temptation of the great friend!"
Branian prophet, which reminds one of the temptation of Buddhs by the fiend Mars,
poetically rendered by Sir Edwin Arnold in the The ceremony over, wo adjourned to the chief's sixth book of his light of Asia. The present house and ratified the oath in numerous Alagons attempt at a not too literal metrical rendering is of home-brewed rice-beer. Now I luckily happen based on the Zend text (xix. 1-85), partly eked out to possess a strong head and this has stood me in by the Pehlevi version.]' good stead, as one must drink with these people it one wishes to thoroughly adapt oneself to their Now from the North, from regions of the North, customs. The drink is passed round in horns Porth Auro-Mainyas rushed, the murderou one, (generally a tame gyals) and their principle is Demon of demons: then he, evil-minded "no heel tape," each person reversing his horn to And slayer of many men, thus spake aloud: show he has emptied it. I was much amused on one occasion at one of these drinking bouts by
"Hence, fiend, and slay the holy Zarathust!" Sayipais exolaming: “This is indeed a obiel: And Bat the fiend, the murderous, who deceives why we can't even make him drunk. The Lushais The souls of men, came rashing down upon him. carry this drinking to such an extent that it is a
But Zarathustra prayed the sacred prayer, oommon thing for the rice of last year's crop to The pruises of the good Oreation and the Law. be exhausted before the new crop is ripo, owing to
And lol the fiend, the murderous, who deceives the vast quantities consumed in manufacturing
The souls of men, in terror fled away, [me! their drink. Ass rule the Lushais are not quarrel
And screamed:"0 Auro-Main yus, thou tormentest some in their oups, but when they have bad as much I see no sign of death upon the Holy One !" as they can stand they quietly lie down on the floor and sleep off their drunkennesa. Instances of
But Zarathustra in his spirit saw quarrelling do of course occur, and I remember
How wioked demons plotted for his death. onoe, when sitting in & cbief's house, one of his
Then fearless and unmoved he rose, and stepped young warriors kept coming up to where I was
Forth 'gainst their enmity, whilst in his bands sitting by the chief and bothering me to give him
He bare a sling of mighty stones, which God tobacco, to look at my arms, lege, eto, till I lost
Had given to him; and o'er this brond, round earth, patience and told bim to desist. The ebiet, too,
Where runs the river with its lofty banks, noeing I was getting angry, remarked: "Amro!
He carried them, and thus alond proolaimed: he pay-lall-song-a thun-ur-in aksi-aug-bok" - "Oruel Anro-Mainyu I lo 1 I come to smite "Bo quite, these foreign chiefs when angry are like Thy ill-creation, thy demons, and the fiend, tigors." I took this as a gentle hint and landed The spirit of Idolatry! to combat till such time my young friend one straight between the eyes, As Saoshyant shall come, the Saviour, much to his discomfiture. To my astonishment, The Victor, from the great Sea to the East.
Prom Tribner'. Record, May 1890.
The Ahone-Vairys prayer.
The mythological Lake Kanboya.
