The Bundahišn: The Zoroastrian Book of Creation
The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Redacted sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature and pre-Islamic Iranian...
| Subtitles: | A new translation |
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bundahišhn
/ Zoroastrianism
/ Creation myth
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Electronic books
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| Summary: | The Bundahisn, meaning primal or foundational creation, is the central Zoroastrian account of creation, cosmology, and eschatology. Redacted sometime in the ninth century CE, it is one of the most important of the surviving testaments to Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature and pre-Islamic Iranian culture. Well known in the field as an essential primary source for scholars of ancient Iran's history, religions, literatures, and languages, the Bundahisn is also a great work of literature itself, which ranks alongside the creation myths of other ancient traditions: Genesis, the Babylonian Emunah Elish, Hesiod's Theogony, and others. Cover -- The Bundahišn -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Middle Persian and Avestan Pronunciation Table -- Foreword: The Bundahišn Account of Creation: Myth, Speculation, and Paradox -- Shaul Shaked -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1. On Material Creation -- 2. On the Fashioning of the Lights -- 3. On How and Why Creation Went to Battle -- 4. On How the Adversary Burrowed Through to Creation -- 5. On the Opposition of the Two Spirits: That Is, How the Demon Chiefs Came Spiritually to Oppose the Spiritual Deities -- 6. On the Stages of the Battle of Material Creation against the Evil Spirit -- 7. On the Likenesses of the Creatures -- 8. On the Nature of the Lands -- 9. On the Nature of the Mountains -- 10. On the Nature of the Seas -- 11. On the Nature of the Rivers -- 12. On the Nature of Lakes -- 13. On the Nature of the Five Forms of Animals -- 14. On the Nature of Mankind -- 15. On the Nature of the Birth of All Species -- 16. On the Nature of Plants -- 17. On the Mastery of Men, Animals, and Everything -- 18. On the Nature of Fire -- 19. On the Nature of Sleep -- 20. On Songs -- 21. On the Nature of Wind, Clouds, and Rain -- 22. On the Nature of Vermin -- 23. On the Nature of the Wolf Species -- 24. On Various Things: How They Were Created and How Their Adversaries Came -- 25. On the Religious Year -- 26. On the Great Deeds of the Spiritual Deities -- 27. On Ahriman and the Demons' Evil Deeds -- 28. On the Human Body as the Measure of the Material World -- 29. On the Mastery of the Continents -- 30. On the Činwad Bridge and the Souls of the Departed -- 31. On the Celebrated Lands of Iran and the Kayanid House -- 32. On the Glorious Kayanid Palaces, Which They Call Wonders and Marvels -- 33. On the Calamities That Have Befallen Iran, Millennium by Millennium -- 34. On Resurrection and the Final Body. |
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| ISBN: | 0190879068 |