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Rh Vanghuhi, or Good Piety, is her sister and Sraosha, Rashnu, and Mithra are her brothers. The twenty-fourth day of every month is dedicated to her.

The names of the religion. It is called the daena vanghu Mazdayasnya, 'the good Mazda-worshipping religion,' or daena Mazdayasnya, 'the Mazda-worshipping religion.' It is named conjointly with Ahura and Zarathushtra and called Āhuirya Zarathushtri, 'the Ahurian Zarathushtrian.' It is further named dāta Zarathushtri, 'the Law of Zarathushtra.' It is also spoken of without associating it with Ahura Mazda or Zarathushtra as hu-daena, 'good religion.' The religion in standing opposition to the Mazda-worshipping religion is always called daevayasnya, 'the daeva-worshipping religion.' The preliminary short prayers, the Gahs, the Nyaishes, the Yashts generally begin with a short confessionary formula in which the reciter says he is the worshipper of Mazda, a Zarathushtrian, he is against the daevas and he is of Ahurian faith, Ahura-tkaesho. One of the Nasks, the Vendidad in its original form, vi-daeva-dāta, means 'the Law against the daevas or demons.' This religion of the demons is called aka-daena, 'evil religion'; ; or duzh-daena, 'evil religion. ' The man who follows the same religion is hāmo-daena, 'the co-religionist.' The man of other religion is of anya-tkaesha or anya-varena.

The excellence of the Mazda-worshipping religion. The angels Sraosha is the teacher of the religion. Arshtat, the genius presiding over rectitude, is once identified with Daena. Ahura Mazda brought for Haoma the heavenly made star-be-