activity for each day of the month

Zarathustrian----------Manda<ic----------------Syriac------------------Latin

27. set out on journey

1. setting forth on journey

1.

16. navigate

28.

2. approaching a great man;

2. approach great personages

 

29. to be with wife

wedding woman, cohabitation

 

20. woo woman

 

7. purchase of slaves

7. buying a slave

21. dig "dungeon for slaves" (puteum)

3. Fire temple

8. melting bitumen

 

22. build new temple

4.

     

5. till the land

9. working on the land

 

25. fruitful land, good to work

6.

     

7. tree-planting

 

9. plant groves

 

8. hair-and-nail trimming

   

27. cut hair

9. walk

11. setting out on journey

11. setting out on journey

 

10. abstain from water

 

12. do not wash

 
 

13. all quarrels will be made up

13. friends

30. make peace and never dissension

11. grammar-school

   

1. good to begin reading

   

15. guard one's self

2. guard thyself in

 

16. all things

16. everything;

all (p. 23)

13. archery and

 

hunt

 

horsemanship

   

3. catch horses

14. ox-ploughing

18. transactions in cattle

 

4. oxen

   

20. letting and drawing out blood

5. homicide

 

21. guard one's self against everything

21. keep from everything

 

18. gaiety

   

6. gay

 

23. going forth to the chase

23. hunt

7. fishing

20. war-making

24. war

 

9. make war

21. legal suits

25. hard for him that claims a debt; but favorable for lending

26. good for lending

10. laws

 

26. commerce

27. trafficking

11. travel the world seeking gain;

22. confine one's self to words

   

"confute" (jugulationem)

23. clothe

   

13. "to clothe" (tegere);

24. kill noxious beasts

   

make mouse-traps or snares;

 

29. teaching

29. receiving counsel

eloquent

26. deliver over mares and cows to their males

30. sexual intercourse

 

14. man and woman connect

       

http://www.avesta.org/pahlavi/adarbad1.htm#dayduties

TM, pp. 107-109

BZ, p. 88-92

BM, pp. 560-656

L&ZL, pp. 30-41

bibliography:--

TM = R. C. Zaehner: The Teachings of the Magi. London, 1956.

BZ = ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND, Vol. XXXVI. E. S. Drower (transl.): The Book of the Zodiac (Sfar Malwas^ia) D.C. 31. London: Royal Asiatic Socx., 1949.

BM = ROYAL SOC. OF LITERATURE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. E. A. Wallis Budge (transl.): Syriac Anatomy, Pathology and Therapeutics; or "The Book of Medicines". Vol. II. Oxford U. Press, 1913.

L&ZL = STUDIA GRAECA ET LATINA GOTHOBURGENSIA, XVI. Emanuel Svenberg: Lunaria et Zodiologia Latin. Go:teborg, 1963.