The BundahišnPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0051
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Human Body as the Measure of the Material World","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0051","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 28 focuses on the idea of the correspondence between the microcosm (gēhān ī kōdak) and macrocosm (gēhān ī wuzurg), also found in Plato’s Timaeus. The chapter lays out in detail the parallels between parts of the human body and entities in the world, in particular the heavenly world of the Amahraspands. While surviving Zoroastrian Middle Persian literature does not include a complete medical text, this chapter sheds light on Iranian Zoroastrian theories of medicine and physiology, many of which have precedents in Greek thought.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"13 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":"126073644","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/9780190879044.003.0063
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On Resurrection and the Final Body","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0063","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 34 describes the resurrection of the dead (ristāxēz) in their final physical form, known as the Final Body (tan ī pāsēn), and the Restoration of the earth to its original state of peace and symmetry (frašgird). The eschatological events include a final universal purgation in a river of molten metal and a final battle between good and evil during which the molten river pours into Hell to destroy it. The chapter describes Ahriman’s return to his primordial darkness and gloom.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"27 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":"133683745","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/9780190879044.003.0061
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Calamities That Have Befallen Iran, Millennium by Millennium","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0061","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 33 describes the events that occurred and will occur in each millennium from creation to the coming of the final savior, Sōšāns. While the first two millennia, covering creation and the thousand-year-long misrule of Dahāg, are passed over quickly, the following sections concisely recount the exploits of the central characters of Iranian myth. The next section lists a series of prophecies. Finally, the chapter turns to the end of days and the coming of three saviors, all of whom are posthumous sons of the prophet Zoroaster.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"13 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":"114988127","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/9780190879044.003.0033
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of Sleep","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Chapters 19 and 19A contain a short description of the nature and function of sleep (xwāb). The chapters describe the creation of sleep and its appearance. They also proscribe the proper length of sleep as three or four recitations of one of the central Zoroastrian prayers.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"6 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":"116195125","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/9780190879044.003.0007
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On How the Adversary Burrowed Through to Creation","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 describes the beginning of the cosmic battle between good and evil. The chapter emphasizes the role of the primordial prostitute (Jeh) in planning the onslaught against the material creation of Ohrmazd. The account of the evil contamination of Ohrmazd’s creation is given in detail. This chapter also includes an etiological myth of the origin of menstruation. Section 4B retells the Avestan story of the primordial cow’s complaint to Ohrmazd that may refer to the cessation of animal sacrifices in Zoroaster’s new religion.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"19 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":"124916334","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/9780190879044.003.0059
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Glorious Kayanid Palaces, Which They Call Wonders and Marvels","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0059","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 32 presents a list of the marvelous palaces built by Iranian heroes and their enemies, several of which are also mentioned elsewhere in Middle Persian literature and in the Avesta.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"35 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":"116795276","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/9780190879044.003.0027
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of Plants","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 16 presents a detailed taxonomical classification of plants and fruit. Plants are divided into fifteen kinds based on their growing season (perennial or annual), edibility, fragrance, and use. The chapter also explains the myth of the seasonal pollination of the earth, connected to the astronomical myth of Sirius, and refers to the sacred plant Hōm. The accompanying chapter 16A is dedicated to flowers and their association with the deities of the Zoroastrian calendar.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"160 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":"114901845","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/9780190879044.003.0031
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Nature of Fire","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 18 deals with fire, one of the most important elements of the Zoroastrian religion. It opens with a list of the five kinds of fire and their natures, and then describes the sacred fires of Sasanian Iran: Farrōbag, Gušnasp, and Burzēnmihr. The chapter devotes special attention to the victorious Wahrām fires, the highest degree of consecrated fire, located in fire temples established by different legendary kings.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"1 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":"129035305","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/9780190879044.003.0047
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On the Great Deeds of the Spiritual Deities","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0047","url":null,"abstract":"The longest chapter in the Bundahišn, chapter 26 comprises a detailed catalogue of Zoroastrian deities (yazdān) and their roles and functions. The chapter describes how each deity has distinct powers and attributes, including in the protection of the world and in the war against the forces of Ahriman. The chapter draws from and comments on the hymns to various divine beings found in the Avestan yašts.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"104 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":"124811501","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/9780190879044.003.0001
Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope
{"title":"On Material Creation","authors":"Domenico Agostini, Samuel Thrope","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190879044.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Chapters 1 and 1A describe the myth of primordial creation. The chapters detail Ohrmazd’s spiritual and later material creation of finite time, the earth, the Amahraspands (Beneficent Immortals), and other creations, including the sky, water, earth, and the primordial plant, cow, and man. The chapters also describe Ahriman’s evil and nonmaterial countercreation, and the state of Mixture (gumezišn) that follows the onslaught of evil. Chapter 1A provides a more detailed and complete description of Ohrmazd’s creation.","PeriodicalId":336851,"journal":{"name":"The Bundahišn","volume":"100 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":"122610286","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}
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