The Bundahishn (Knowledge from the Zand)ZoroastrianismAccepted by Some TraditionsPahlavi (Middle Persian)ShareBundahishn 16E. W. West (1880) - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableE. W. West (1880)LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Bundahishn 1Bundahishn 2Bundahishn 3Bundahishn 4Bundahishn 5Bundahishn 6Bundahishn 7Bundahishn 8Bundahishn 9Bundahishn 10Bundahishn 11Bundahishn 12Bundahishn 13Bundahishn 14Bundahishn 15Bundahishn 16Bundahishn 17Bundahishn 18Bundahishn 19Bundahishn 20Bundahishn 21Bundahishn 22Bundahishn 23Bundahishn 24Bundahishn 25Bundahishn 26Bundahishn 27Bundahishn 28Bundahishn 29Bundahishn 30Bundahishn 31Bundahishn 32Bundahishn 33Bundahishn 34›Chapter 16Bundahishn 16ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter11. On the nature of generation it says in revelation, that a woman when she comes out from menstruation, during ten days and nights, when they go near unto her, soon becomes pregnant. 2. When she is cleansed from her menstruation, and when the time for pregnancy has come, always when the seed of the man is the more powerful a son arises from it; when that of the woman is the more powerful, a daughter; when both seeds are equal, twins and triplets. 3. If the male seed comes the sooner, it adds to the female, and she becomes robust; if the female seed comes the sooner, it becomes blood, and the leanness of the female arises therefrom. 44. The female seed is cold and moist, and its flow is from the loins, and the color is white, red, and yellow; and the male seed is hot and dry, its flow is from the brain of the head, and the color is white and mud-colored (hashgun). 5. All the seed of the females which issues beforehand, takes a place within the womb, and the seed of the males will remain above it, and will fill the space of the womb; whatever refrains therefrom becomes blood again, enters into the veins of the females, and at the time any one is born it becomes milk and nourishes him, as all milk arises from the seed of the males, and the blood is that of the females. 66. These four things, they say, are male, and these female: the sky, metal, wind, and fire are male, and are never otherwise; the water, earth, plants, and fish are female, and are never otherwise; the remaining creation consists of male and female. 7. As regards the fish it says that, at the time of excitement, they go forwards and come back in the water, two and two, the length of a mile (hasar), which is one-fourth of a league (parasang), in the running water; in that coming and going they then rub their bodies together, and a kind of sweat drops out betwixt them, and both become pregnant. ‹Previous chapterBundahishn 15Next chapterBundahishn 17›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain