The Arctic Home in the Vedas c7.25.4

c7.25.4

and the Parsi scriptures supplement this information by telling us that the sun stood still before the Fravashis showed to him ‘the path of Mazda’, evidently meaning that the Devayâna, or ‘the path of Mazda,’ was the portion of the year when the sun was above the horizon after being confined for some time by the powers of darkness.