The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0025
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of the Birth of All Species","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 15 presents a theory of conception in human beings and in various animal species that seems to be based on different Greek and Hellenistic ideas. Strikingly, the chapter considers menstruation to be a biological process that is a necessary part of the reproductive cycle, and not, as is the case in Zoroastrian ritual law, a sign of impurity. The accompanying chapter 15A concerns the gender of various creations.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117348114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0057
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Celebrated Lands of Iran and the Kayanid HouseOn the Celebrated Lands of Iran and the Kayanid House","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 31 describes the sixteen lands of Iran and the adversary that Ahriman sent against each one. The Bundahišn’s list is modeled on the first chapter of the Vidēvdād, which describes Ērānwēz and fifteen adjacent countries, most of which are located in today’s northeastern Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. As is often the case in Sasanian reimaginings of Avestan geography, the chapter reascribes originally eastern toponyms to the southwestern districts that were the heartland of the Sasanian Empire as a form of mythic relocation.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121305474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0039
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of Vermin","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 22 is devoted to xrafstar, the evil animals created by Ahriman in dualistic opposition to Ohrmazd’s animal creation. Like the discussion of Ohrmazd’s animal creation in chapter 13, this chapter, too, classifies Ahrimanic vermin. Reptiles—in particular serpents—insects, and mythological animals are divided into aquatic, terrestrial, and flying categories. Wolves, a separate category of evil animals, are discussed in chapter 23.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124714679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0023
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of Mankind","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 14 provides an account of the creation of the first human couple, Mašyā and Mašyāne. The chapter also provides a genealogy of their offspring, the progenitors of the races of mankind as well as of monstrous and mythical peoples. Two additional sections focus on “others”: women and monkeys and bears.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121139266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0005
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On How and Why Creation Went to Battle","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 describes Ohrmazd’s final preparations before Ahriman’s onslaught on the material world. It enumerates the different roles of the Amahraspands in the defense of creation. The chapter also contains interesting material on human psychology, namely the division of the human being into the body and four spiritual parts. The chapter also discusses the frawahr, a spiritual concept unique to the Zoroastrian tradition, and the nature of the idea of free will.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131736829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0013
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Likenesses of the Creatures","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 7 describes how, following Ahriman’s attack on creation, Ohrmazd consigned the forms of the primordial cow and the first man, Gayōmard, to the stars, moon, and sun. The positive role assigned to the sun and moon here contradicts their negative nature, along with that of the five planets, described in chapter 2. The chapter also mentions the compositions of different types of stars, made up of water, earth, and plant essence.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133126283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0065
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Family and Lineage of the Kayanids","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0065","url":null,"abstract":"Chapters 35 and 35A provide genealogies of the epic and the religious heroes of the Iranian tradition, as well as the priestly families of the mowbeds. The second part of the chapter deals with the genealogy of the prophet Zoroaster. It describes the prophet’s ancestry, as well as the names of his historical sons and daughters.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114673912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0011
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Stages of the Battle of Material Creation against the Evil Spirit","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the response of the good creations to the onslaught of evil. Particularly interesting are the myth describing the role of the star Sirius in ensuring rainfall and the horoscope of the first man, Gayōmard, which provides an astrological explanation of his life and death.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122129106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0069
G. Stroumsa
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"G. Stroumsa","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0069","url":null,"abstract":"The Bundahišn was redacted after the end of the Sasanian Empire, at a time when Zoroastrians were adapting to their new, fragile situation as a tolerated minority under Islamic rule. Like most other Pahlavi literary texts, however, much of its contents reflects older conceptions, and it often presents theological and mythological traditions from the ancient past. A major question confronting scholars of ancient Iranian literature concerns the dating of these traditions, all the more so as this literature had been preserved orally for centuries before being committed to writing. It is often extremely difficult, or altogether impossible, to disentangle older layers from later accretions. Just like religious beliefs and practices, indeed like language itself, myths never remain static but constantly evolve, driven by an inner logic of development and under the impact of foreign traditions with which they are in contact....","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125043268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0055
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Činwad Bridge and the Souls of the Departed","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0055","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 30 deals with the destiny and the judgment of the individual soul after death. The chapter describes the three stages in the soul’s journey to the next world: first, three days of torment and pain while the soul sits next to the body; then encounters with a series of apparitions; and, finally, passage across the Činwad Bridge. The chapter also provides details about the three otherworldly realms: Paradise (literally, “the best,” wahišt), the highest station of which is called garōdmān (House of Song); Hell (dušox); and an intermediary state (hammistagān).","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131702963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}