Cosmogonic Sacrifice
A number of prominent scholars of Zoroastrianism have recently taken up Marijan Molé’s thesis that Ahura Mazdā created the world by way of a sacrifice. This article examines the sources that have been adduced for the thesis. It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evide...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Indo-Iranian journal
Year: 2017, Volume: 60, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-16 |
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Zoroastrianism
sacrifice
cosmogony
Avesta
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