During that confusion the archfiends of the demons severally shouted thus: ‘Rise up, thou father of us! For we will cause a conflict in the world, the distress and injury from which will become those of Aûharmazd and the archangels. Severally they twice recounted their own evil deeds, and it pleased him not; and that wicked evil spirit, through fear of the righteous man, was not able to lift up his head until the wicked Gêh came, at the completion of the three thousand years.
And she shouted to the evil spirit thus: ‘Rise up, thou father of us! For I will cause that conflict in the world wherefrom the distress and injury of Aûharmazd and the archangels will arise.’ And she twice recounted severally her own evil deeds, and it pleased him not; and that wicked evil spirit rose not from that confusion, through fear of the righteous man.
And, again, the wicked Gêh shouted thus: ‘Rise up, thou father of us! for in that conflict I will shed thus much vexation on the righteous man and the labouring ox that, through my deeds, life will not be wanted, and I will destroy their living souls (nismô); I will vex the water, I will vex the plants, I will vex the fire of Aûharmazd, I will make the whole creation of Aûharmazd vexed.’
And she so recounted those evil deeds a second time, that the evil spirit was delighted and started up from that confusion; and he kissed Gêh upon the head, and the pollution which they call menstruation became apparent in Gêh. He shouted to Gêh thus: ‘What is thy wish? so that I may give it thee.’ And Gêh shouted to the evil spirit thus: ‘A man is the wish, so give it to me.’
The form of the evil spirit was a log-like lizard’s (vazak) body, and he appeared a young man of fifteen years to Gêh, and that brought the thoughts of Gêh to him. Afterwards, the evil spirit, with the confederate demons, went towards the luminaries, and he saw the sky; and he led them up, fraught with malicious intentions.
Zoroastrian Story of Creation
