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In the beginning was the Cow, and the Cow was with God, who bore the name Ahura Mazda.
The Cow did not yet produce milk. Ahura Mazda blessed the Cow, saying, 'We have appinted no one to have dominion over you. We have created you for those who care for the four-footed beasts and for those who tend their pastures.'
A few thousand years later, life brought forth the man Kayumars. One evening, as Kayumars was standing near his cave, he looked up at the stars and the moon, casting their light on the cattle and people in the never-ending pastures. 'Someone should take command of this mystery,' he thought.
As he was standing once again near the mouth of his cave on a sunny afternoon, dark clouds appeared without warning and rain began to fall. Churning rivers destroyed the pastures and swept away people and cattle alike.
'Someone should take command of the rivers,' Kayumars thought.
On another day he saw the men fighting. [...] He saw that the women were afraid and the children were crying, he said to himself, 'Someone should take command of those men, and protect the women and children.'
One morning, just as the sun was coming up, the women an their children came to him a crown of young branches and fragrant blossoms. He put the crown on his head, stretched out his arms to the sky and spoke the following words: 'Ahura Mazda! Grant me your strength, that I might take command of everything that is motionless and everything that moves upon the earth.' Then he went down from the mountain.
Kayumars reigned for seven hundred years.
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Kader Abdolah
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