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SHAYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
conveying the religion, Anfrân is the extreme of exertion and listening ?
5. May it be completed in peace and pleasure !
The reading of both these nouns is uncertain. The days of the Parsi month, which bear the names of these thirty angels, are divided, it will be observed, into four nearly equal divisions, resembling weeks, which are here separated in $$ 1-4. The first weekly period begins with a day dedicated to Adharmazd, and called by his own name; and each of the three other weekly periods also begins with a day dedicated to Adharmazd, but called by the name of Dîn, religion,' with the name of the following day added as a cognomen. The first week, therefore, consists of the day Adharmazd followed by six days named after the six archangels respectively (see Bund. I, 23, 26). The second week consists of the day Dîn-with-Atarô followed by six days named after the angels of fire, waters, the sun, the moon, Mercury, and the primeval ox. The third week consists of the day Dîn-with-Mitrô followed by seven days named after the angels of solar light, obedience, and justice, the guardian spirits, and the angels of victory, pleasure, and wind. And the fourth week consists of the day Dinwith-Dînô followed by seven days named after the angels of religion, righteousness, rectitude, the sky, the earth, the liturgy, and the fixed stars.
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