“Toward midnight the Star-worshippers, men and women, come slowly down to the _Mishkna_ by the riverside. Each, as he or she arrives, enters the tiny wattled hut by the southern wall, disrobes, and bathes in the little circular reservoir, the _tarmido_, or priest, standing by and pronouncing over each the formula, ‘_Eshmo d’haï, Eshmo d’manda haï madhkar elakh_’ (‘The name of the living one, the name of the living word, be remembered upon thee’). On emerging from the water, each one robes him or herself in the _rasta_, the ceremonial white garments peculiar to the Star-worshippers, consisting of a _sadro_, a long white shirt reaching to the ground; a _nassifo_, or stole round the neck falling to the knees; a _hiniamo_, or girdle of woollen material; a _gabooa_, square headpiece, reaching to the eyebrows; a _shalooal_, or white over-mantle; and a _kanzolo_, or turban, wound round the _gabooa_ headpiece, of which one end is left hanging down over the shoulder. Peculiar sanctity attaches to the _rasta_, for the garments composing it are those in which every Star-worshipper is buried, and in which he believes he will appear for judgment before Avather in the nether world _Materotho_. Each one, as soon as he is thus attired, crosses to the open space in front of the door of the tabernacle, and seats himself upon the ground there, saluting those present with the customary _Sood Havilakh_, ‘Blessing be with thee,’ and receiving in return the usual reply, _Assootah d’haï havilakh_, ‘Blessing of the living one be with thee.’