Chapter 1
God apportioned certain parts of the earth for the tribes of Shem of the arc of Noe’chi, a heavenly place, seat of mountains, and Lords, All Wise; and from his Wisdom directed Hirto into his pastures.
Hirto, Son of Neph, born of an egg, descended out of the highest heaven. He was a most gracious Lord, and in deference to Om, struck himself (in his egg) against the rocks of heaven. So, when the egg was broken, one-half of the shell ascended (becoming the dome of heaven), the other half became the foundation of the world.
The evil voice spoke to the children of men, and polluted them. About which, the Great Spirit spoke in the firmament of heaven, saying: To Hirto, son of Neph, I bequeath the tribes of Shem forever. For they have withstood Anra’mainyus, My everlasting enemy. So Hirto became Lord of Shem, and he banished Anra’mainyus down under the earth, where he busies himself building fires for the furnaces of hell, the smoke and flames of which come up through the earth and are called Agni (volcanoes), so that his existence would be known to men.
Thus came Evil from Good; but so that Everlasting Wisdom would prevail with mortals and the spirits of heaven, All Light created Visvasrij (universal system and order) as a creator to abide forever. Before this time there were two things in the world: Voidness was one, and Vachis was the other. Vachis vach [that is, Speech spoke –Ed.], and the world was. So it came to pass that Voidness was divided into two parts, the seen and the unseen worlds.
The unseen spoke in the wind three sounds, E-O-IH, and was called by mortals Eolin, God of the wind; so Eolin showed Himself in three colors: yellow, which is the highest color; blue, which is the coldest color; and red, which is the warmest color.
Eolin said: Out of My three sounds, all sounds are made; out of My three colors, all colors are made. He was the All Master.
He said: Three worlds I have made: the earth world, which is for mortals; the all high heavens, which are for pure and wise angels; and the intermediate world, which rests on the earth.
Eolin said: Three lights I have created: the sun, to rule the day; the moon, to rule the night; and the burning fire, for the use of man.
Three spirit lights I created: Ruch, which issues out of My soul; Shem, which comes from My Lords in heaven to the souls of men; and Vas, which comes from the spirits of the intermediate world.
Eolin said: I am in three states: Ghost, which is ever-present and unchangeable; Corpor, which is in places, like the earth, stars, sun and moon; and Motion, which is everlasting unrest. Such am I, Eolin, Mightiest in three, in All Place and All Time.
When the egg was broken and the shell distributed, lo and behold, the se’mu of the egg had nowhere to rest, and being void of compact distributed itself in the void world and was not seen. Then Hirto, High Lord of the upper heavens, sent whirlwinds abroad, and they gathered of the substance of the egg and rained it down on the earth.
Uz, son of Eolin, ran quickly and turned Anra’mainyus’ fires to the north, and Eolin touched the earth with His quickening hand, and instantly all the living were created.
So Eolin said: To you, My first-begotten Son, I bequeath the earth, it shall be yours to keep forever. Neither shall there be any other God.
But in course of time the evil voice (satan) encompassed the earth with serpents that spoke like men and angels, and the serpents made friends with All Evil, Father of Anra’mainyus; and the women of the tribes of A’su went and tempted the first men, the I’hins, and so, evil offspring were born into the world.
Hirto, Lord of the earth, drove the first men out of the region of light, and set high-born angels on the boundaries of Chinvat, at the gates of the upper heaven, to guard the tribes of Faithists for ever after. Nevertheless, evil, being set on foot, soon overspread the earth. So Hirto rested his hands on his thighs, and swore an oath to All Light that he would drown the world and all the living. And in answer to the Lord a seraphim, a mighty fire-ship, came down out of the sun region, opening the floodgate of heaven with a sea of water, and all the people perished, except the I’hins, the sacred people, friends of the Lord of earth.
So the Lord took the hollow of his hand and lifted up his people, and gave them doves’ wings, and they flew far and came to the land where the Lord dwells; so it was called Shem as a proof to all the world.
In those days God was so near to mortals, that when an honest man spoke, the Lord answered him. And Anra’mainyus was near also, and when an evil man spoke an evil voice answered him. For that reason, the Lord singled out the purest and most virtuous of women; the wisest, strongest and most faithful, best of men, and married them, giving two women to one man, according to law. And the heirs of the wisest and most virtuous of men and women were wiser than their parents. And the Lord gave this secret to his people (prophets, priests) in the house of God, and they gave the knowledge to the chosen people.
Hirto said: For this reason, O my beloved, you shall not wed with the druks, the dark people, that burrow in the ground, lest your seed become polluted, and your heirs go down to hell with Anra’mainyus.
But Anra’mainyus, evil creator of evil, went to the druk women; speaking to them in a dark corner, he said: You have the root of Babao to make delirious; fetch it to the white people that came with doves’ wings; fetch, and they will eat and get drunk. And when the young men are drunk, go to them, for they are my gift.
So, of those who came out of the arc of Noe’chi, sin was newborn; for the druks went in where they were drunk, saying: Lest the white people and the yellow people fall upon us, and our seed perish on the earth, make us of flesh and kin, bone and bone, blood and blood.
Hirto, the Lord God, saw into the darkness, and being compassionate, said: I will visit great punishment on Anra’mainyus for this; his head shall droop in sorrow. But as for the I’hins, being drunk, I will forgive them. And as to the newborn people, they shall become the mightiest of all people in the whole world, because they came out of both darkness and light. The darkness in them shall battle all darkness; the light that is in them shall then master over their own darkness. But as for the druks, they shall go down in darkness forever. ||