The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0009
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Opposition of the Two Spirits: That Is, How the Demon Chiefs Came Spiritually to Oppose the Spiritual Deities","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Chapters 5 is divided into three parts. The first section includes a list of the good spirits and their respective antagonists. This section also discusses the demonic nature of the planets and their struggle with seven good constellations. The second section presents the world horoscope and the astral positions at the time of creation. The final section outlines an archaic terrestrial geography: with seven continents at the center of which is the continent of Xwanirah, dominated by Mount Tērag.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"58 3 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":"132569582","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/9780190879044.003.0067
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Chronology of the Arabs of Twelve Thousand Years","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0067","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 36 provides a brief chronology of the history of the world from the first human couple to the Arab conquest; this chronology differs in important respects from the apocalyptic history found in chapter 33. The chapter closes with two dates that mark the composition of the chapter, and perhaps of the Bundahišn as a whole.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"57 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":"116893550","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/9780190879044.003.0002
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"Prologue","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 0 Praise to the Creator Ohrmazd! Majestic, glorious, omniscient, wise, mighty, the greatest in good thoughts, words, and deeds in thinking, speech, and action, and to all the spiritual and material deities.\u0000 \u0000 1 With good fortune and with a happy omen I would wish to write—secondly...","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"39 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":"133440771","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/9780190879044.003.0019
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of the Rivers","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 11 lists the principal rivers of the world. The chapter focuses on several rivers bearing mythic significance, in particular the Arang and Dāitī, where Gayōmard and the primordial cow were both created. The chapter also discusses the ritual pollution of water and its purification and includes a list of the different kinds of liquids in the world.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"30 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":"127737556","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/9780190879044.003.0049
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On Ahriman and the Demons’ Evil Deeds","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0049","url":null,"abstract":"The catalogue of demons in chapter 27 mirrors the structure of the list of deities elsewhere in the Bundahišn. The first part of the chapter is devoted to a description of the nature of Ahriman, followed by a list of the six archdemons, the major demons, and finally other minor fiends. The chapter’s concluding digression on Hell seems to be an interpolation.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"16 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":"116742090","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/9780190879044.003.0043
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On Various Things: How They Were Created and How Their Adversaries Came","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0043","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 24 discusses the mythical creatures that play a role in the earthly battle against evil animals and in Zoroastrian eschatology. Among others, the chapter devotes a lengthy discussion to the three-legged donkey and its function in rainmaking. However, in this and other cases, though the donkey and other creatures are mentioned already in the Zoroastrian sacred scripture, the Avesta, their mythic function remains obscure. The second part of the chapter lists which good animals oppose which evil creations and demons.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"16 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":"125568730","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/9780190879044.003.0018
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of the Seas","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 10 presents a list of seas. This list partly derives from the mythic geography of the Avesta and partly is based on historical bodies of water, including the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Strait of Hormuz or Gulf of Oman.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"29 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":"121855833","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/9780190879044.003.0020
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of Lakes","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Chapters 12 lists the principal lakes of the known world; this list overlaps in part with the list of seas in chapter 10. Some of lakes mentioned can be tentatively identified with modern bodies of water, including Lake Urumieh, Lake Sōwar, Čašma-yi Sabz in Afghanistan, Aral Sea, and Gaud-i Zira in the Sistan region.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"118 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":"134462583","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/9780190879044.003.0041
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of the Wolf Species","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 23 focuses on wolves (gurg). This class of evil animals includes not only wolves proper, but also tigers, lions, owls, shark, and other species; some of these, such as the garzag, cannot be identified. The chapter describes how wolves were created directly by Ahriman. As in the case of other vermin, killing wolves is a virtuous act, and it is likely that there was a standard calculation for how many sins could be forgiven for each wolf killed.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"34 3 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":"114306276","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/9780190879044.003.0029
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Mastery of Men, Animals, and Everything","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 17 presents a long list of the different creations and the archetypical “spiritual master” (rad) of each.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"254 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":"125855074","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}