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190 O(h)rmezd . . . [cosmos] . . . snow melts.
And when that Splendour [of the] gods rises up, then [darkness] will enclose the cosmos of earths and heavens from the highest heaven 200 and to the lowest earth, and it will come loose from its sheath and fastening.
Then again, Mihryazd Mihryazd: The sun-god, often associated with the savior figure in Manichaean texts. will *go down from the chariot [of the] sun to the cosmos, and a call will resound. The gods who are in the different heavens and earths—the lord of the house, of the village, of the tribe and of the land, the border-guard and (demon-)tormentor—who hold the world in order, [and] torment Az (Greed) and Ahramen Ahramen: The primary personification of evil, often written as Ahriman. and the demons 210 [and] witches—to them [and] to all (the universe) it will become known that Az [and] Ahramen and the demons and witches [and] demons of wrath, Mazan demons Mazan demons: A specific class of powerful, malevolent spirits in Persian mythology. and arch-demons . . . with . . .
Then that house-lord god, who stands on the lowest earth and holds 220 the earths in order, [and] that wind-raising god who is with him, who makes wind, water, and fire rise up, and that village-lord god who stands on this earth, and who keeps that gigantic dragon cast down in the northern clime, together with their helpers, all proceed to Paradise. Then the earths will all, one upon the other, collapse down onto those four (lower) layers, the prison of the demons.
231 [And] the female form of [the mother] of Ohrmezd will appear from the chariot of the sun and look upon the heavens. And that god, lord of the land, who stands above all heavens and holds the hands of those [five]