ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what happens to the world after its corruption by the powers of evil. The position of Mashye and Mashyane in a world that has now tasted evil is analogous to that of Adam and Eve when they were expelled from the garden. Thus Mashye and Mashyane proved themselves singularly inept in carrying out their pre-ordained role in Ohrmazd’s plan. The legend of Mashye and Mashyane is told in other sources too, and does not vary much. It is the Zoro astrian version of the Fall. Mashye and Mashyane then make a lamentable beginning and Ohrmazd has to reduce the natural pleasure they take in their food so monstrously excessive does it prove to be. The moment they become self-conscious they are sternly admonished by Ohrmazd to do only what is good and on no account to worship the demons.
