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YAZATAS

Vanghuhi, or Good Piety, is her sister and Sraosha, Rashnu, and Mithra are her brothers.[1] The twenty-fourth day of every month is dedicated to her.[2]

The names of the religion. It is called the daena vanghu Mazdayasnya, 'the good Mazda-worshipping religion,'[3] or daena Mazdayasnya, 'the Mazda-worshipping religion.'[4] It is named conjointly with Ahura and Zarathushtra and called Āhuirya Zarathushtri, 'the Ahurian Zarathushtrian.'[5] It is further named dāta Zarathushtri, 'the Law of Zarathushtra.'[6] It is also spoken of without associating it with Ahura Mazda or Zarathushtra as hu-daena, 'good religion.'[7] The religion in standing opposition to the Mazda-worshipping religion is always called daevayasnya, 'the daeva-worshipping religion.' The preliminary short prayers, the Gahs, the Nyaishes, the Yashts generally begin with a short confessionary formula in which the reciter says he is the worshipper of Mazda, a Zarathushtrian, he is against the daevas and he is of Ahurian faith, Ahura-tkaesho. One of the Nasks, the Vendidad in its original form, vi-daeva-dāta, means 'the Law against the daevas or demons.'[8] This religion of the demons is called aka-daena, 'evil religion';[9]; or duzh-daena, 'evil religion.[10] The man who follows the same religion is hāmo-daena, 'the co-religionist.'[11] The man of other religion is of anya-tkaesha or anya-varena.[12]

The excellence of the Mazda-worshipping religion. The angels Sraosha is the teacher of the religion.[13] Arshtat, the genius presiding over rectitude, is once identified with Daena.[14] Ahura Mazda brought for Haoma the heavenly made star-be-

  1. ↑ Yt. 17. 15, 16.
  2. ↑ Ys. 16. 6; Sr. 1. 24; 2. 24.
  3. ↑ Ys. 1. 13; 2. 13; 9. 26; 11. 16; 16. 6; 22. 24, 25; 25. 5, 6; 70. 3; Vsp. 6. 1; Yt. 2. 13; 16. 20; Sr. 1. 24; 2. 24; Ny. 1. 8; 2. 8; Vd. 19. 6, 7, 13, 16.
  4. ↑ Ys. 8. 1, 3; 22. 25; 25. 6; 71. 4; Vsp. 12. 3; Yt. 8. 23, 29; 10. 68, 126, 127; 11. 3; 16. 17; 18. 8; 19. 2; 24. 52; G. 2. 7; Vd. 2. 42; 3. 30, 31, 41, 42; 5. 21; 9. 2, 47, 52; 10. 18.
  5. ↑ Ys. 12. 9; 60. 3; Yt. 13. 99; Vd. 2. 1, 2.
  6. ↑ Ys. 1. 13; 2. 13; 22. 25; 25. 6; Yt. 11. 3; Vd. 5. 25; 19. 16.
  7. ↑ Vsp. 3. 3; Yt. 4. 10; 19. 95; 22. 18; G. 4. 8.
  8. ↑ Ys. 1. 13; 2. 13; 22. 25; 25. 6; 71. 5; Yt. 11. 17; Vd. 5. 22; 19. 16.
  9. ↑ Vd. 18. 9.
  10. ↑ Ys. 65. 6; Yt. 5. 109; 9. 31; 19. 47, 87; 22. 36.
  11. ↑ Vd. 4. 44.
  12. ↑ Ys. 16. 2; Vd. 12. 21; 15. 2.
  13. ↑ Ys. 57. 24; Yt. 11. 24.
  14. ↑ Vsp. 7. 2.
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