activity for each day of the month
Zarathustrian----------Manda<ic----------------Syriac------------------Latin
27. set out on journey |
1. setting forth on journey |
1. |
16. navigate |
28. |
2. approaching a great man; |
2. approach great personages |
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29. to be with wife |
wedding woman, cohabitation |
20. woo woman |
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7. purchase of slaves |
7. buying a slave |
21. dig "dungeon for slaves" (puteum) |
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3. Fire temple |
8. melting bitumen |
22. build new temple |
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4. |
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5. till the land |
9. working on the land |
25. fruitful land, good to work |
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6. |
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7. tree-planting |
9. plant groves |
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8. hair-and-nail trimming |
27. cut hair |
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9. walk |
11. setting out on journey |
11. setting out on journey |
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10. abstain from water |
12. do not wash |
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13. all quarrels will be made up |
13. friends |
30. make peace and never dissension |
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11. grammar-school |
1. good to begin reading |
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15. guard one's self |
2. guard thyself in |
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16. all things |
16. everything; |
all (p. 23) |
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13. archery and |
hunt |
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horsemanship |
3. catch horses |
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14. ox-ploughing |
18. transactions in cattle |
4. oxen |
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20. letting and drawing out blood |
5. homicide |
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21. guard one's self against everything |
21. keep from everything |
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18. gaiety |
6. gay |
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23. going forth to the chase |
23. hunt |
7. fishing |
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20. war-making |
24. war |
9. make war |
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21. legal suits |
25. hard for him that claims a debt; but favorable for lending |
26. good for lending |
10. laws |
26. commerce |
27. trafficking |
11. travel the world seeking gain; |
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22. confine one's self to words |
"confute" (jugulationem) |
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23. clothe |
13. "to clothe" (tegere); |
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24. kill noxious beasts |
make mouse-traps or snares; |
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29. teaching |
29. receiving counsel |
eloquent |
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26. deliver over mares and cows to their males |
30. sexual intercourse |
14. man and woman connect |
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http://www.avesta.org/pahlavi/adarbad1.htm#dayduties TM, pp. 107-109 |
BZ, p. 88-92 |
BM, pp. 560-656 |
L&ZL, pp. 30-41 |
bibliography:--
TM = R. C. Zaehner: The Teachings of the Magi. London, 1956.
BZ = ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND, Vol. XXXVI. E. S. Drower (transl.): The Book of the Zodiac (Sfar Malwas^ia) D.C. 31. London: Royal Asiatic Socx., 1949.
BM = ROYAL SOC. OF LITERATURE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. E. A. Wallis Budge (transl.): Syriac Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics; or "The Book of Medicines". Vol. II. Oxford U. Press, 1913.
L&ZL = STUDIA GRAECA ET LATINA GOTHOBURGENSIA, XVI. Emanuel Svenberg: Lunaria et Zodiologia Latin. Go:teborg, 1963.