# Yashts — Yasht 7

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> Source: Avesta.org. The Yashts, Yasht 7, translation: L.H. Mills / J. Darmesteter (Sacred Books of the East, 1880-1887), Avesta.org. License: Public domain (translation predates 1928).
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> AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (English): Mah Yasht ('Hymn to the Moon')
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> 7. MAH YASHT ("Hymn to the Moon")
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> This digital edition copyright © 1995 by Joseph H. Peterson.
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> Translated by James Darmesteter, From Sacred Books of the
> East, American Edition, 1898.
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> 0.
> May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....
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> Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good....
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> I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a follower of Zarathushtra,
> one who hates the Daevas and obeys the laws of Ahura;
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> For sacrifice,prayer, propitiation, and glorification unto [Havani],
> the holy and master of holiness....
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> Unto the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull; unto the
> only-created Bull and unto the Bull of many species;
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> Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
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> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
> 1.
> Hail to Ahura Mazda! Hail to the Amesha-Spentas! Hail to the
> Moon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull! Hail to thee when
> we look at thee! Hail to thee when thou lookest at us!
> 2.
> How does the moon wax? How does the moon wane?
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> For fifteen days does the moon wax; for fifteen days does the
> moon wane. As long as her waxing, so long is the waning; as long
> as her waning, so long is the waxing.
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> 'Who is there but thee who makes the moon wax and wane?'
> 3.
> We sacrifice unto the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the
> Bull, the holy and master of holiness.
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> Here I look at the moon, here I perceive the moon; here I look
> at the light of the moon, here I perceive the light of the moon.
> The Amesha-Spentas stand up holding its glory; the Amesha-Spentas
> stand up, pouring its glory upon the earth, made by Mazda.
> 4.
> And when the light of the moon waxes warmer, golden-hued plants
> grow on from the earth during the spring.
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> We sacrifice unto the new moons, the full moons, and the Vishaptathas.
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> We sacrifice unto the new moon, the holy and master of holiness;
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> We sacrifice unto the full moon, the holy and master of holiness;
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> We sacrifice unto the Vishaptatha, the holy and master of holiness.
> 5.
> I will sacrifice unto the Moon, that keeps in it the seed
> of the Bull, the liberal, bright, glorious, water-giving, warmth-giving,
> wisdom-giving, wealth-giving, riches-giving, thoughtfulness-giving,
> weal-giving, freshness-giving, prosperity-giving, the liberal,
> the healing.
> 6.
> For its brightness and glory, I will offer unto it a sacrifice
> worth being heard, namely, unto the Moon that keeps in it the
> seed of the Bull.
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> Unto the Moon that keeps in it the seed of the Bull, we offer
> up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom
> of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations,
> and the rightly-spoken words.
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> Yenghe hatam: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda....
> 7.
> Yatha ahu vairyo: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
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> I bless the sacrifice and prayer, and the strength and vigour
> of the Moon, that keeps in it the seed of the Bull, and of the
> only-created Bull, and of the Bull of many species.
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> Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good.
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> Give unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body,
> .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy
> Ones.
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