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- Ahura Mazda (protects asha)
- A supreme god who is the creator of the world. Preserver of all that good.
- Ahriman (causes druj)
- Evil attributed to a separate spirit of God. Causes evil in world.
- Druj
- Zoroastrian evil.
- Avesta
- Zoroastrian sacred scriptures.
- Asha
- Free will, righteous law, good.
- Saoshyant
- Zoroastrian messiah.
- frasho kereti
- Improving creation through proper ritual and ethics. The renewal of the world.
- Basic story of Arda Viraf
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AV goes to God’s realm of heaven and hell b/c that was were the righteous and unrighteous dead go (first distinction made b/w righteous & sinful dead)
AV’s trip to H/H confirms to practitioners that the world their religion assumed to be real was actual (travel narrative as proof-text for the cosmos). Strict ethical principles.
- Hammistagan
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AV describes a class of people as neither good nor bad, but balanced in their earthly deeds.(“Place of the Motionless Onesâ€), kind of purgatory where they are purified and wait for the tan i pasen (future body)
- Zoroastrian burial ritual
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Earliest Z. texts show good burial as leaving the corpse to be eaten by birds of prey (can’t mix with elements)
Later Z changes this custom by ordering that fire ought to be kept pure from “impure†dead bodies—leads to exposure of bodies (“Tower of Silenceâ€) usually for a week-month