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. . . and [in] righteousness and good works and soul-loving . . . love . . . will shine. And when they pass by (145) a cemetery and a place of ossuaries and will see them, (150) then they will remember their own family and relatives who have passed away, and they will say: “Alas for those who in that age of sin died and were lost. But who may raise up their heads from their resting-places and teach them (155) this joy in which we now find ourselves?”
(160) . . . god Xradešahr . . . earth . . . mankind . . . and will himself rise up to his own place. And wind, water, and fire [will rise up] from the earth and in joy . . .
(170) Then of the cosmos of earths and heavens it will be the time of Renovation, and from the whole world they will cause the dead to go out, and raise the religious up to Paradise, and animals and trees and winged birds and water creatures and reptiles of the earth will disappear (175) from the world and go to hell. (180) And then wind, water, and fire will be removed from that lowest earth, on which that house-lord and the wind-raising god are standing. And that New World and the prison of the demons, which the New-World-creating god forms, will be fixed to Paradise and made fast. Then Ohrmezd . . . (moon) god . . . sheath of the cosmos . . . Splendour of the gods . . .