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  • and intoxicating qualities. In the Avesta scripture of Zoroastrianism ... in Zoroastrianism is evidenced within the Avesta (particularly in the Hōm ...
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  • poems that make up the oldest parts of the Avesta, the Gāthās. The language ... more conservative than Gathic Avestan, the Avesta is usually dated to a few ...
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  • Zarathushtra had originally opposed. The Avesta, the primary collection of ... The holy book of Zoroastrianism is called the Avesta. It, like many ...
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  • order. However, in later texts of the Avesta, both "Ahura" and ... is closely linked with Ahura Mazda in the Avesta. This suggests that Ahura ...
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  • exists in the Rig Veda. Just as the Avesta lacks a mention of an external ... === Iranian Avesta === The religious practices depicted in the Rig ...
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  • between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of ... **Avesta **Gathas *Mazdakism *Manichaeism ==References== ...
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  • |1880 || James Darmesteter || The Zend-Avesta, vol. 1 of 3. The Vendîdâd. ... |1883 || James Darmesteter || The Zend-Avesta, vol. 2 of 3. The Sîrôzahs ...
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  • allusion to a temple cult of fire in the Avesta proper, nor is there any ... evidence from Zend commentaries on the Avesta suggest that the sanctuary ...
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  • While the battle between Indra and Vritra is included in the Avesta, the Zoroastrian holy book, Zoroastrianism takes a much different interpretation ...
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  • similarities with the early Iranian Avesta, deriving from the Proto ... cultural similarities with the early Iranian Avesta, Oldenberg|1894 ...
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  • have argued that due to the similarity of the Avesta and Sanskrit words for deva, a religious split may have occurred between the early Indo-Aryans ...
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  • The oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta are also believed to ... *[http://avesta.org/ avesta.org: Translations of the Avesta texts] ...
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  • Gathas, the earliest part of the Avesta, speak of the future destruction of the world by fire that is connected with a great moral struggle. ...
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  • world are impure, and, just as in the Vedas and Avesta, many cleansing ceremonies are required if impurity occurs. Crows represent the ancestors ...
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  • Mandarin China. With the translation of the Avesta by Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron and the discovery of the Indo-European languages by William ...
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  • Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian Avesta, the poet does not mention a manifest adversary of God. Here Ahura Mazda's creation is "truth ...
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  • Anquetil Du Perron, the discoverer of the Zend-Avesta, was presented with a copy by his friend Le Gentil, who was then French resident at the court of ...
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  • Under his reign the collection of the Avesta, the sacred texts of Zoroastrianism ... from the practices laid out in the Avesta, the holy books of Zoroastrianism ...
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  • the Rigveda and the early Iranian (Persian) Avesta, deriving from the Proto-Indo-Iranian times, and often associated with the Andronovo culture; ...
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  • the original golden text of the Zend Avesta by throwing it into the sea. Despite his supposed sins, by the Islamic period the adoption of Pseudo ...
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