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Mainyo-i-Khard 9

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The sage asked the spirit of wisdom

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thus: 'Is it possible to go from region to region, or not?

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From what substance is the sky made?

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And how and in what manner is the mingling of the water in the earth?'

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The spirit of wisdom answered

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thus: 'Without the permission of the sacred beings, or the permission of the demons, it is then' not possible for one to go from region to region.

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The sky is made from the substance of the blood-stone, such as they also call diamond (almâst).

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And the mingling of the water in the earth is just like the blood in the body of man.'

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Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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