Here, in the Ancient Persian Chess Game of Asha, the Creator/Preserver and the Amshaspands (Amesha Spentas = Bountiful Immortals) are depicted left to right, in the back row: 8: Asha Vahishta, 6: Spenta Armaïti, 4: Vohu Mana, 2: Sraosha/Mithra, 1: Ahura Mazda, 3: Ameretat, 5: Haurvatat, 7: Khshatra Vairya
I
Who, to
us is
One,
hereupon, to You becomes
Two, to
be made to
Three, to 
Four, to
Five,
to
Six, to 
Seven, to 
Eight, who all serve You through 
ASHA !
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In this sequence the back row of the Forces of the Light was created.
In this list the counter-forces are included in the order of the creation, as already described in Fargard 1.
I
I do celebrate
my praise
II
for Good
Thoughts,
Good
Words and
Good Deeds : for my
Thoughts, my Speech, and my
Actions. III
I present all
Good Thoughts, Good
Words
and Good Deeds, and
with rejection I do
repudiate
all evil
thoughts, and
words and 
deeds.
IV
Herewith, O You
Bountiful
Immortals,
I
give
sacrifice and
homage to You : with my
Mind,
Words, and
Deeds, and
with my entire
person !
Yea,
I do
offer
the very flesh of my
body to You as
Your
own.
V
And praise do
I
give to
ASHA. What a
blessing is the
Divine Order !
YASNA XII
VI
As a
Mazda
worshipper, of
the Order of
Zarathustra,
I do
confess to
be a
praiser of the
Bountiful Immortals.
VII
And
endowed with all
Good
Possessions,
l do
attribute
all good things, that are
Good, to the
Good
Ahura Mazda
: to the
Holy
One, the
resplendent, the
glorious, whose are
all things whatsoever, which are
Good;
whose
is
ASHA, the
Cosmic Order, pervading
all things pure, whose are the
Stars, in
Whose
Light the
glorious
Beings and
objects
are clothed.
VIII
A
Mazda
worshipper am
I, of
Zarathustra’s
Order; so do
I
confess - to be a
praiser and a
confessor,
IX
and do
I, therefore,
praise aloud the
well-thought
Thought, the
Word well-spoken and the
Deed well
done !
