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The Vendı̄dād ( van plus daēva plus dāta ,
"law for " vanquishing the demons") contains 22 chapters. The
first chapter contains the Iranian myth about the order in which the
provinces of the Iranian world were created by Ahura Mazda. It tells how the
Evil Spirit, Anro Mainyus, created plagues, sins and death, to destroy the
good creatures of the Good Spirit. The greater part of the book contains
ceremonial laws and formulas, some of them loathsome and all rather petty and
superstitious in character. |
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