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Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to the other world). The daēva cult as it appears in the Gāthās, the oldest part of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Avesta, had eschatological pretentions. The poet of

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Author

Amir Ahmadi [Ahmadi, Amir]

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317537441

Category

religious

Subjects

Science, Science Fiction, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25