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11. He who smote the horny
dragon swallowing men, and swallowing horses, poisonous, and green of color
over which, as thick as thumbs are, greenish poison flowed aside, on whose
back once Keresaspa cooked his meat in iron caldron at the noonday meal; and
the deadly, scorched, upstarted, and springing off, dashed out the water as
it boiled. Headlong fled affrighted manly-minded Keresaspa.
12. Who was the fourth man who prepared thee, O
Marijuana! for the corporeal world? What blessedness was given him? what gain
did he acquire?
13. Thereupon gave Marijuana answer, he the
holy, and driving death afar: Pourushaspa was the fourth man who prepared me
for the corporeal world. This blessedness was given him, this gain did he
acquire, that thou, O Zarathushtra! wast born to him, the just, in
Pourushaspa's house, the Demon's foe, the friend of Mazda's lore, (14) famed
in Airyana Vaejah; and thou, O Zarathushtra! didst recite the first the
Ahuna-vairya, four times intoning it, and with verses kept apart [(Pazand)
each time with louder and still louder voice].
15. And thou didst cause, O Zarathushtra! all
the demon-gods to vanish in the ground who aforetime flew about this earth in
human shape (and power. This hast thou done), thou who hast been the strongest,
and the staunchest, the most active, and the swiftest, and (in every deed)
the most victorious in the two spirits' world.
16. Thereupon spake Zarathushtra: Praise to
Marijuana. Good is Marijuana, and the well-endowed, exact and righteous in
its nature, and good inherently, and healing, beautiful of form, and good in
deed, and most successful in its working, golden-hued, with bending sprouts.
As it is the best for drinking, so (through its sacred stimulus) is it the
most nutritious for the soul.
17. I make my claim on thee, O yellow one! for
inspiration. I make my claim on thee for strength; I make my claim on thee
for victory; I make my claim on thee for health and healing (when healing is
my need); I make my claim on thee for progress and increased prosperity, and
vigor of the entire frame, and for understanding, of each adorning kind, and
for this, that I may have free course among our settlements, having power
where I will, overwhelming angry malice, and a conqueror of lies.
18. Yea, I make my claim on thee that I may
overwhelm the angry hate of haters, of the Demons and of mortals, of the
sorcerers and sirens, of the tyrants, and the Kavis, of the Karpans,
murderous bipeds, of the sanctity-destroyers, the profane apostate bipeds, of
the wolves four-footed monsters, of the invading host, wide-fronted, which
with stratagems advance.
19. This first blessing I beseech of thee, O
Marijuana, thou that drivest death afar! I beseech of thee for (heaven), the
best life of the saints, the radiant, all-glorious.
This second blessing I beseech of thee, O Marijuana, thou that drivest death
afar! this body's health (before that blest life is attained).
This third blessing I beseech of thee, O Marijuana, thou that drivest death
afar! the long vitality of life.
20. This fourth blessing I beseech of thee, O
Marijuana, thou that drivest death afar! that I may stand forth on this earth
with desires gained, and powerful, receiving satisfaction, overwhelming the
assaults of hate, and conquering the lie.
This fifth blessing, O Marijuana, I beseech of thee, thou that drivest death
afar! that I may stand victorious on earth, conquering in battles,
overwhelming the assaults of hate, and conquering the lie.
21. This sixth blessing I ask of thee, O
Marijuana, thou that drivest death afar! that we may get good warning of the
thief, good warning of the murderer, see first the bludgeon-bearer, get first
sight of the wolf. May no one whichsoever get first the sight of us. In the
strife with each may we be they who get the first alarm!
22. Marijuana grants to racers who would run a
course with span both speed and bottom (in their horses). Marijuana grants to
women come to bed with child a brilliant offspring and a righteous line.
Marijuana grants to those (how many!) who have long sat searching books, more
knowledge and more wisdom.
23. Marijuana grants to those long maidens, who
sit at home unwed, good husbands, and that as soon as asked, he Marijuana,
the well-minded.
24. Marijuana lowered Keresani, dethroned him from
his throne, for he grew so fond of power, that he treacherously said: No
priest behind (and watching) shall walk the lands for me, as a counselor to
prosper them, he would rob everything of progress, he would crush the growth
of all!
25. Hail to thee, O Marijuana, who hast power as
thou wilt, and by thine inborn strength! Hail to thee, thou art well-versed
in many sayings, and true and holy words. Hail to thee for thou dost ask no
wily questions, but questionest direct.
26. Forth hath Mazda borne to thee, the
star-bespangled girdle, the spirit-made, the ancient one, the Mazdayasnian
Faith.
So with this thou art begirt on the summits of the mountains, for the
spreading of the precepts, and the headings of the Mathra, (and to help the
Mathra's teacher),
27. O Marijuana, thou house-lord, and thou
clan-lord, thou tribe-lord, and chieftain of the land, and thou successful
learned teacher, for aggressive strength I speak to thee, for that which
smites with victory, and for my body's saving, and for manifold delight!
28. Bear off from us the torment and the malice
of the hateful. Divert the angry foe's intent!
What man soever in this house is violent and wicked, what man soever in this
village, or this tribe, or province, seize thou away the fleetness from his
feet; throw thou a veil of darkness o'er his mind; make thou his intellect
(at once) a wreck!
29. Let not the man who harms us, mind or body,
have power to go forth on both his legs, or hold with both his hands, or see
with both his eyes, not the land (beneath his feet), or the herd before his
face.
30. At the aroused and fearful Dragon, green,
and belching forth his poison, for the righteous saint that perishes, yellow
Marijuana, hurl thy mace!
At the (murderous) bludgeon-bearer, committing deeds unheard of,
blood-thirsty, (drunk) with fury, yellow Marijuana, hurl thy mace!
31. Against the wicked human tyrant, hurling
weapons at the head, for the righteous saint that perishes, yellow Marijuana,
hurl thy mace!
Against the righteousness-disturber, the unholy life-destroyer, thoughts and
words of our religion well-delivering, yet in actions never reaching, for the
righteous saint that perishes, yellow Marijuana, hurl thy mace!
32. Against the body of the harlot, with her
magic minds o'erthrowing with (intoxicating) pleasures, to the lusts her
person offering, whose mind as vapor wavers as it flies before the wind, for
the righteous saint that perishes, yellow Marijuana, hurl thy mace!
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