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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM, V, 5-VI, 7.
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declared as the movement of the first-comers of the creatures. 2. Cancer became a zodiacal constellation (akhtar); it is the fourth constellation of the zodiac for this reason, because the month Tir is the fourth month of the year 1.
3. And as Tistar, begged for assistance, Vohûman and Hôm are therefore co-operating with him in command, Burg of the waters and the water in mutual aid, and the righteous guardian spirits in keeping the peace. 4. He was converted into three forms, which are the form of a man, the form of a bull, and the form of a horse ; and each form was distinguished in brilliance for ten nights, and lets its rain fall on the night for the destruction of noxious creatures. 5. The drops became each separately like a great bowl in which water is drawn; and as to that on which they are driven, they kill all the noxious creatures except the reptiles ?, who entered into the muddiness of the earthx terve
6. Afterwards, the wind spirit, in the form of a man, became manifest on the earth; radiant and tall he had a kind of wooden boot (makvo-aê-i dârino) on his feet; and as when the life shall stir the body, the body is advancing with like vigour, so that spirit of the wind stirs forth the inner nature of the atmospheric wind, the wind pertaining to the whole earth is forth, and the water in its grasp is ftung out from it to the sides of the earth, and its wide-formed ocean arose therefrom.
7. It (the ocean) keeps one-third of this earth 3,
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1 Bund. VII, 2-6 is paraphrased in $$ 2-6.
? Reading nek sûnd barâ min khasandakan the MS. barâ nasûnd min khasandakână.
3 Compare Bund. XIII, 1, 2.
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