And now Darius, his hands wet with royal blood, was moving to make this identification of the two orders, celestial and mortal, even more explicit. As he would never cease to acknowledge, everything he was, everything he had achieved, was due to the favour of Ahura Mazda: ‘He bore me aid, the other gods too, because I was not faithless, I was not a follower of the Lie, I was not false in my actions.’
