See chap. xxvm

9. The Zôta is the chief officiating priest in ail cérémonies, and the Râspî is the assistant priest.

termes semblables : 4° le Mauvais Esprit retourne dans les ténèbres et dans l'obscurité par le même passage par lequel il a fait autrefois irruption dans le ciel (v. 30 b). Le Seigneur met la caverne où il s'est enfui, dans le métal fondu, il ramène le pays de l'enfer pour l'élargissement de la terre (32 a). 2°Gôcîhar brûle le serpent (mâr), c'est-à-dire, Az, dans lemétal

the Kûstl in his hand ; defeated by the Kûstî ' formula the resources of the evil spirit and As act mostimpotently, and by the passage througn which he rushed into the sky * he runs back to gloom and darknes?. 31. GôAîhar 8 burns the serpent (mâr) * in the melted métal, and the stench and pollution which were in hell are burned in that métal, and it(hell) becomes quite pure. 32. He (Aûharmazd) sets the vault 5 into which the evil spirit fled, in that métal ; he brings the land of hell back for the enlargement of the world 6 ; the rénovation arises in theuniverse by hisml\,and the world isimmortal for ever and everlasting.

33. This, too, it says, that this earth becomes an iceless 7 ,

i. The words zak g, hâni, for an gehâni, are probably a misreading of alvyahân, « the kûstî or sacred thread-girdle », which is tied round thewaist in a peculiar manner, during the récital of a particular formula, in which Aûharmazd is blessed and Aharman and the démons are cursed.