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Today, it is an honor to present selections from Fargard 20 and 21 of the Vendidad. Vendidad Fargard 20 Thrita, the First Healer “Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, Thou Holy One! Who was he who first of the healthful, the wise, the happy, the wealthy, the glorious, the strong men of yore, drove back sickness to sickness, drove back death to death, and first turned away the point of the poniard and the fire of fever from the bodies of mortals?’ Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Thrita it was who first of the healthful, the wise, the happy, the wealthy, the glorious, the strong man of yore, drove back sickness to sickness, drove back death to death, and first turned away the point of the poniard and the fire of fever from the bodies of mortals. He asked for a source of remedies; he obtained it from Khshathra-Vairya to withstand sickness and to withstand death, to withstand pain and fever, to withstand the disease, rottenness, and infection which Angra Mainyu had created witchcraft against the bodies of mortals. And I, Ahura Mazda, brought down the healing plants that, by many hundreds, by many thousands, by many myriads, grow up all around the one Gaokerena [the tree of eternal life]. All this (health) do we call by our blessing-spells, by our prayers, by our praises, upon the bodies of mortals. To thee, O Sickness, I say go away! To thee, O Death, I say go away! To thee, O Pain, I say go away! To thee, O Fever, I say go away! To thee, O Disease, I say go away! By their might may we smite down the Drug [the concept of evil and deceit]! By their might may we smite the Drug [the concept of evil and deceit]! […]’”
