Those keeping a daily practice and those sitting with the dying
Symbols
EarCockStaffChinvat bridge
Mythology Summary
Sraosha ('Obedience' or 'Hearing') is the yazata of attentive hearing and of the discipline of prayer, praised in Yasht 11 of the Avesta (the Srosh Yasht) as the strong, victorious one who was the first to offer sacrifice and who guards the soul for three nights after death. With Mithra and Rashnu he is one of the judges at the Chinvat bridge, and in the later tradition the cock that crows before dawn is his bird, waking the faithful to prayer. He is invoked in the daily liturgy and in the rites for the dead.
Modern Practice
Invoked for the keeping of a daily practice, for attentive listening, and for the dying and the recently dead through the three-night vigil; modern correspondence work uses him for discipline and for the protection of sleep and of the threshold.