Navjote in India, sedreh-pushi in Iran, is the initiation, performed between roughly seven and fifteen. The child is bathed, drinks a small quantity of consecrated liquid in the older form, recites the confession of faith declaring themselves a worshipper of Mazda and a follower of Zarathustra, and is invested with the two objects they will wear for life: the sudreh, a thin white cotton shirt with a small symbolic pocket at the neck said to hold accumulated good deeds, and the kusti, a cord woven from seventy-two threads of lamb's wool — one for each chapter of the Yasna — wound three times round the waist and tied with four knots. The theological weight is exact: before initiation the child bears no accountability, and after it they answer for their own thoughts, words and deeds. In a tradition built on individual moral choice, this is the moment a person becomes a moral agent, and it is why the ceremony carries far more significance than a Western observer might assume from its brevity.