The Old Ways

Zoroastrian · The Book of Arda Viraf · 22 of 96

CHAPTER 21

tr. Martin Haug and E. W. West (1872)

1. I also saw the soul of a man, (2) the skin of whose head they ever widen out, and with a cruel death they ever kill him. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body, whose soul suffers such a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is this soul of that wicked man who, in the world, slew a pious man.'