Zend-Avesta SelectionsZoroastrianismAccepted ScriptureAvestanShareZend-Avesta Selections 10Sacred Books of the East selections - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableSacred Books of the East selectionsLanguageEnglishEspañol‹Zend-Avesta Selections 1Zend-Avesta Selections 2Zend-Avesta Selections 3Zend-Avesta Selections 4Zend-Avesta Selections 5Zend-Avesta Selections 6Zend-Avesta Selections 7Zend-Avesta Selections 8Zend-Avesta Selections 9Zend-Avesta Selections 10Zend-Avesta Selections 11Zend-Avesta Selections 12Zend-Avesta Selections 13Zend-Avesta Selections 14Zend-Avesta Selections 15Zend-Avesta Selections 16Zend-Avesta Selections 17Zend-Avesta Selections 18Zend-Avesta Selections 19›To The Earth And The Sacred WatersZend-Avesta Selections 10ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1And now we worship this earth which bears us, together with Thy wives, O Ahura Mazda! yea, those Thy wives do we worship which are so desired from their sanctity. We sacrifice to their zealous wishes, and their capabilities, their inquiries, and their wise acts of pious reverence, and with these their blessedness, their full vigor and good portions, their good fame and ample wealth. O ye waters! now we worship you, you that are showered down, and you that stand in pools and vats, and you that bear forth our loaded vessels, ye female Ahuras of Ahura, you that serve us in helpful ways, well forded and full-flowing, and effective for the bathings, we will seek you and for both the worlds! Therefore did Ahura Mazda give you names, O ye beneficent ones! when He who made the good bestowed you. And by these names we worship you, and by them we would ingratiate ourselves with you, and with them would we bow before you, and direct our prayers to you with free confessions of our debt. O waters, ye who are productive, and ye maternal ones, ye with heat that suckles the frail and needy before birth, ye waters that have once been rulers of us all, we will now address you as the best, and the most bountiful; those are yours, those good objects of our offerings, ye long of arm to reach our sickness, or misfortune, ye mothers of our life! ‹Previous chapterZend-Avesta Selections 9Next chapterZend-Avesta Selections 11›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 in the United States via Project Gutenberg