ll I praise him, the star
Tistrya, with audible praise. We praise the star Tistrya, the
brilliant, majestic, with offerings, with Haoma bound with flesh, with
Mauthra which gives wisdom to the tongue, with word and deed, with
offerings with right-spoken speech."

"The star Tistrya, the brilliant, majestic, we praise, who glides so
softly to the sea like an arrow, who follows the heavenly will, who is
a terrible pliant arrow, a very pliant arrow, worthy of honor among
those worthy of honor, who comes from the damp mountain to the shining
mountain."

"HYMN TO MITHRA.

"Mithra, whose long arms grasp forwards here with Mithra-strength; that
which is in Eastern India he seizes, and that which [is] in the Western
he smites, and what is on the steppes of Rauha, and what is at the ends
of this earth.

"Thou, O Mithra, dost seize these, reaching out thy arms. The
unrighteous destroyed through the just is gloomy in soul. Thus thinks
the unrighteous: Mithra, the artless, does not see all these evil
deeds, all these lies.

"But I think in my soul: No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength
thinks so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength thinks good. No
earthly man with a hundred-fold strength speaks so much evil as Mithra
with heavenly strength speaks good. No earthly man with a hundred-fold
strength does so much evil as Mithra with heavenly strength does good.

"With no earthly man is the hundred-fold greater heavenly understanding
allied as the heavenly understanding allies itself to the heavenly
Mithra, the heavenly. No earthly man with a hundred-fold strength hears
with the ears as the heavenly Mithra, who possesses a hundred
strengths, sees every liar. Mightily goes forward Mithra, powerful in
rule marches he onwards; fair visual power, shining from afar, gives he
to the eyes."

"A CONFESSION, OR PATET.[139]

"I repent of all sins. All wicked thoughts, words, and works which I
have meditated in the world, corporeal, spiritual, earthly, and
heavenly, I repent of, in your presence, ye believers. O Lord, pardon
through the three words.

"I confess myself a Mazdayacnian, a Zarathustrian, an opponent of the
Daevas, devoted to belief in Ahura, for praise, adoration,
satisfaction, and laud. As it is the will of God, let the Zaota say to
me, Thus announces the Lord, the Pure out of Holiness, let the