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coming of healing to the purifying water is like the nature of the existences which it acquires, and then the nature which it thus acquires for its own the water draws up by the power which is drawing water to itself.
5. The water of Arekdvisûr is on Albúrz', and flows even to the summit of the star station during the coming of the healing of purification, even unto Hakhir the lofty ?, all-gorgeous and brilliant; thence its flowing is effected into the lake of a summit to Albůrz, Mount Ads,hindam“, which is in the middle of the wide-formed ocean. 6. And from that flowing of waters that destined river, the utter destruction of every night, comes on in the light of a dawn; by the sprinkling of spray (pash-pashano) it extends through the seven regions of the earth, and from it arise the growth of their plants and the coming of the healing of purification, that which is called a drop (srisk) of the primeval creatures being a particle (aham) of water of the bulk of a horse 6.
1 The chain of mountains supposed to surround the world and reach to heaven (see Chap. XX, 3, Bd. XII, 1, 3); owing to its height any water from its summit must flow downwards to reach the lowermost grade of heaven, called the star station.
? Av. Hukairy a berezô, the Hagar of Bd. XII, 5, XXIV, 17, probably a western summit of the mythic Albürs.
* M14 and I have nikânî-aito, is precipitated,' instead of kûni-ait.
The Av. us Hindvad, up the Hindva,' of Tîstar Yt. 32, a mountain summit where the clouds gather; it is the Ausîndôm mountain of Bd. XII, 6, XIII, 5, said to be of the ruby material of the sky. In Bd. XIII, 4 the lake is said to be on the summit of Hugar.
Referring to the term aspô-kehrpa applied to waters in Haftân Yt. 13, Tîstar Yt. 8, 46.
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