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Copyright: @2013 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2013 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2013 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2013 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

The seasonal thanksgiving festival of Paiti-šhahya (the harvest festival, literally: bringing in the grain) falls almost a week before the autumnal equinox. This festival starts on September 12th and ends on September 16th, with the last day of the festivity … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2013 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

Copyright: @2013 Ardeshir Farahmand ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. … Continue reading →

Concerning the future Savior (Saöshyánt) and Saviors of Zoroastrianism or Mazd-Yasna we read in the gathic Vársht-mánßar book: I have created the agent of the renewal of the worlds (farsh-gard kardár), the compeller of virtue, excellence; the Saöshyánt of whom … Continue reading →

The holy denkart gives a summary of the poetic gathas and the gathic teachings in the chapter dealing with the staót yaßn or the most sacred out of the 21 Avestan books. It summarizes the gathic prophetic songs as follows: … Continue reading →

We read in the ancient Várshtmánßar commentary of the poetic gathas concerning Yasna 31.7 and the creation of the worlds: About establishing the universe through spirit/mind (maínögíg dahishna), through the original thinking power of Ahúrmazd (fratüm minishna í Aúhrmazd;) The … Continue reading →