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Zoroaster · James Darmesteter, 1898
Translated by James Darmesteter, 1898 AHURA MAZDA spake unto Spitama Zarathushtra, saying: I have made every land dear (to its people), even though it had no charms whatever in it2: had I not made every land dear (to its people), even though it had no charms whatever in it, then the whole living world would have invaded the Airyana Vaeja. 2.4 The first of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the Airyana Vaeja, by the Vanguhi Daitya. Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the serpent in the river and Winter, a work of the Daevas. There are ten winter months there, two summer months; and those are cold for the waters, cold for the earth, cold for the trees. Winter falls there, the worst of all plagues. (Hum 35: “Ten are there the winter months, two the summer months, and even then (in summer) the waters are freezing, the earth is …
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