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exist in the world; the fire says thus: I will not heat; and the water says thus: I will not flow.”
59. 'And then I, Adharmazd the creator, say to : Srôsh and Nêryôsang the angel : “Shake the body of Keresåsp the Sâmân, till he rises up!"
60. Then Srôsh and Nêryôsang the angel go to Keresâsp?; three times they utter a cry, and the fourth time Sâm rises up with triumph, and goes to meet Az-i Dahâk. 61. And? Såm does not listen to his words, and the triumphant club strikes him on the head, and smites and kills him; afterwards, desolation and adversity depart from this world, while I make a beginning of the millennium 62.
Then Sôshyans - makes the creatures again pure, and the resurrection and future existence occur.'
63. May the end be in peace, pleasure, and joy, by the will of God (yazdâno)! so may it be! even more so may it be!
Also called Sâm in this same section; he was lying in a trance in the plain of Pêsyânsai (see Bund. XXIX, 7-9).
* Reading afas instead of minas (see Chap. II, 4, note 2).
* The thirteenth millennium, or first of the future existence, when Sôshyans appears. The Dinkard and the Persian Rivayats recount the same legends regarding the miraculous birth of Sôshyans, and of the sun standing still (for thirty days), as they do with regard to Hôshềdar (see note on § 43).
• See Bund. XXXII, 8.
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