Bundahishn 04 - The Primeval Ox Goshurvan

Bundahishn, Chapter 4 Translated by E.W. West (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5, 1880)

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CHAPTER 4.

1

This also is said, that when the primeval ox passed away it fell to the right hand, and Gayomard afterwards, when he passed away, to the left hand. 2. Goshorun, as the soul of the primeval ox came out from the body of the ox, stood up before the ox and cried to Ohrmazd, as much as a thousand men when they sustain a cry at one time, thus: ‘With whom is the guardianship of the creatures left by thee, when ruin has broken into the earth and vegetation is withered, and water is troubled? Where is the man of whom it was said by thee thus: I will produce him, so that he may preach carefulness?‘

3

And Ohrmazd spoke thus: ‘You are made ill, O Goshorun! you have the illness which the evil spirit brought on; if it were proper to produce that man in this earth at this time, the evil spirit would not have been oppressive in it.‘

4

Forth Goshorun walked to the star station (payak) and cried in the same manner, and forth to the moon station and cried in the same manner, and forth to the sun station, and then the guardian spirit of Zartosht was exhibited to her, and Ohrmazd said thus: ‘I will produce for the world him who will preach carefulness.‘

5

Contented became the spirit Goshorun, and assented thus: ‘I will nourish the creatures;’ that is, she became again consenting to a worldly creation in the world.