The Avesta (/əˈvɛstə/) is the primary collection of religious literature of Zoroastrianism from at least the late Sassanid period (ca. 6th century CE)...
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(Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, tūriia) is the ethnonym of a group mentioned in the Avesta, i.e., the collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. In those texts...
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Zoroastrianism (section Avesta)
Greek name Zoroaster—as set forth in the primary religious text called the Avesta. Zoroastrians exalt an uncreated and benevolent deity of wisdom as the universe's...
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Avesta Motorstadion also called the Arena Avesta or Stadion Brovalla is a 12,000 capacity motorcycle speedway track located 10 kilometres south of Krylbo...
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The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. Avesta may also refer to: Avesta Municipality (Avesta kommun), one of 290 municipalities...
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Avesta (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɑ̂ːvɛsta]) is a locality and the seat of Avesta Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 11,949 inhabitants in 2015...
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Khordeh Avesta, meaning 'little, or lesser, or small Avesta', is the name given to two different collections of Zoroastrian religious texts. One of the...
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Avesta Municipality (Avesta kommun) is one of 290 municipalities of Sweden. It is in Dalarna County, in the central part of the country, and its seat...
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Mehrdad Avesta (Mohammad Reza Rahmani, Persian: مهرداد اوستا; 8 August 1930 – 6 May 1991) was an Iranian poet. He was born in Borujerd (on 8 August 1930)...
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Avestan (category Avesta)
Zoroastrian Avesta. It is not known what the original speakers of Avestan called the language. The modern term "Avestan" comes from the Avesta, a collection...
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Skogsbo-Avesta IF is a Swedish football club located in Avesta. Skogsbo-Avesta IF currently plays in Division 5 Dalarna Södra which is the seventh tier...
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Zend (redirect from Zend-Avesta)
exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts. The term zand is a contraction of the Avestan language word zainti...
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2001, p. 243, n.18. "AVESTA: YASNA (English): Chapters 0-8". avesta.org. "AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA: Niyayeshes (Litanies)". avesta.org. Franz Grenet, "MITHRA...
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Hadhayosh (section Description in the Avesta)
the Avesta it is also called the Sarsaok. In the 14th century, it was said to have raided Iran, giving itself a name as a fearsome beast. The Avesta is...
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Persian (from the Achaemenid Empire) and Old Avestan (the language of the Avesta). Of the Middle Iranian languages, the better understood and recorded ones...
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Naqsh-e Rostam. The nineteenth-century qaêtvadatha style (with q instead of Avesta x) and similar writings reappear in modern literature. The first part of...
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Ashi (section In the younger Avesta)
substantivizing -ta suffix, hence aṣ̌i/arti "that which is granted." In the Avesta, the term implies both material and spiritual recompense. Although conceptually...
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Avestan period (category Avesta)
1500 – c. 500 BCE) is the period in the history of the Iranians when the Avesta was produced. It saw important contributions to both the religious sphere...
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Ahriman (section In the Avesta)
like Ormazd. This is significantly different from what is found in the Avesta (where Mazda's stock epithet is dadvah, "Creator", implying Mazda is the...
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pre-Arm. *Zuradašt". There is no consensus on the dating of Zoroaster. The Avesta gives no direct information about it, while historical sources are conflicting...
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Avesta architectural complex (or "Avesta" garden-complex) is a complex consisting of a garden and a monumental object located on Al-Khorazmi street, Urgench...
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Airyanem Vaejah (section In the Avesta)
the place where Zarathustra received the religion from Ahura Mazda. The Avesta also names it as the first of the "sixteen perfect lands" that Ahura Mazda...
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Nuriye Kesbir (redirect from Sozdar Avesta)
Nuriye Kesbir (also known as Sozdar Avesta; born 20 June 1948), is a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and also of the presidential council...
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principally defined as the interpretation of Avesta, the Zoroastrian religious book. The Zend, an explanation of Avesta which is written in Pahlavi language and...
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Younger Avesta (Yasht 19.19). Translated by Helmut Humbach, Pallan Ichaporia. Wiesbaden. 1998.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) The Zend-Avesta, The...
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Avesta AIK is a Swedish football club located in Avesta, Sweden. The club was founded in February 1905 as Avesta Absolutisters Idrottsklubb. The name was...
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Haoma (section In the Avesta)
languages (هوم). The physical attributes, as described in the texts of the Avesta, include: the plant has stems, roots and branches (Yasna 10.5). it has a...
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Ashem Vohu (section In the Avesta)
"AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA: Part 1". www.avesta.org. Retrieved 2019-07-16. Kanga, Ervad Kawasji Eduljee. English Translation of Gujarati Khordeh Avesta. p...
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Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrian literature describing cosmographical beliefs include the Avesta (especially in its description of Avestan geography) and, in later Middle...
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