animal or a Haoma libation, is performed by a priest and takes place in the open, on mountain tops or near rivers. The community is assembled while the addressed god is perceived to be invisibly sitting on the baresman strewn on the ground.

Redaction

At some point, the process of fluid transmission must have stopped and the texts crystalised into a form similar to what we have today. This means that the oral transmission was from then on no longer done by a fluid

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