Code secret

[ElizabethWest]

seugnot ni gnikaeps eht rof won tub, doog yrev​

ýânîm manô ýânîm vacô ýânîm shyaothnem ashaonô zarathushtrahe, ferâ ameshâ speñtâ gâthå gêurvâin! nemô vê gâthå ashaonîsh,

ahyâ ýâsâ nemanghâ ustânazastô rafedhrahyâ manyêush mazdâ pourvîm speñtahyâ ashâ vîspêñg shyaothanâ vanghêush xratûm mananghô ýâ xshnevîshâ gêushcâ urvânem.

(zôt,) ýê vå mazdâ ahurâ pairî-jasâi vohû mananghâ maibyô dâvôi ahvå astvatascâ hyatcâ mananghô âyaptâ ashât hacâ ýâish rapañtô daidît hvâthrê.

The Gathas?

 

[Equinoxe]

The Gathas?

Yes indeed, the opening passages of Ahunavaiti Gatha; Yasna 28:1-3 (to borrow quasi-Biblical notation).

 

[ElizabethWest]

Yes indeed, the opening passages of Ahunavaiti Gatha; Yasna 28:1-3 (to borrow quasi-Biblical notation).

You took out the "very good."

 

[Equinoxe]

You took out the "very good."

Well now, don't get me wrong, it was very good of you, but I didn't want to seem that pretentious; it was just a little too professorial of me. I am quite impressed though, it's not often people would recognise the Gathas.

 

[ElizabethWest]

Well now, don't get me wrong, it was very good of you, but I didn't want to seem that pretentious; it was just a little too professorial of me. I am quite impressed though, it's not often people would recognise the Gathas.

I have good resources.

The doc and Google are my friends.

 

[Equinoxe]

I have good resources.

The doc and Google are my friends.

Me too, I don't have the Avesta memorised (and I don't speak Avestan, unfortunately), but I do find it interesting.

I still expect to grow up to be a Persian Princess, so far it hasn't worked out for me. I content myself to write stories.