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Also the Tistrya with a whole eye of the Khorda Avesta of Spiegel, p

Date of account: English edition published 1872
Source: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2)
Reference: Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 1 (of 2) · selected passage 60
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-25

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also the Tistrya with a whole eye of the Khorda Avesta of Spiegel, p

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[276] Cfr. also the Tistrya with a whole eye of the _Khorda Avesta_ of Spiegel, p. 9, and all the _Tistar Yast_ in the _Khorda Avesta_, xxiv. If Tistar is the moon, Tistrya would appear to perform the same duties as the good fairy--that is, of showing, by means of her good eyes, her good eyesight, and her splendour, the way to the lost heroes. The Hindoo cow of Vasishthas, which yields every good thing, and which then fights in the clouds against Viçvâmitras, would sometimes appear to be the moon veiled by the rainy cloud; thus we can explain the rain-giving character of the star Tistrya, which, according to the _Bundehesh_, by raining ten days and ten nights, destroyed the monsters of dryness created by the demon Agro-mainyus.

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