How To Use Avesta In A Sentence
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I’ve also read mesopotamian myths that have survived including the Avesta from the Zoroastrians which serves as a foundation of Judaism combined of course with the cult of Amun (the egyptian cult of the one god).
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It is in the Zend-Avesta, primal Japhetic utterance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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Avestan died out long before the advent of Islam and except for scriptural use not much has remained of it.
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The Avestan language is called Avestan because the sacred scriptures of Zoroastrianism, Avesta, were written in this old form.
Planet-x.com.au » Afghan
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Preliminary Discourse, pp.xix. lxv. thought, about the seventh century, but was derived, it is claimed, from a more ancient work. 5 The book entitled "Revelations of Ardai Viraf" exists in Pehlevi probably of the fourth century, according to Troyer,6 and is believed to have been originally written in the Avestan tongue, though this is extremely doubtful.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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Fire worship was central to the Aryans and to their Vedic and Avestan expressions, as was the tradition of the holy drink - the Vedic soma and the Avestan haoma.
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Aryan is an English language word derived from the Indian Vedic Sanskrit and Iranian Avestan terms ari -, arya -, ārya -, and/or the extended form aryāna -.
Steve Anderson: Tom Metzger & WAR: The Race is On and it Looks Like Heartaches
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Grover and I both published in the North Texas State college magazine, which was called Avesta.
Literary Life: A Second Memoir
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The original title denotes Avesta and Zend, which is a correct description, for what is now known as the Zend Avesta is really a combination of text (Avesta) and commentary (Zend), just as the Jewish Talmud is a combination of Mishnah
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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The designation Zend-Avesta, which is often employed to denote the sacred code, is not strictly correct.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a:
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
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There are three different phases in the development of Indo-Iranian languages: Old, Middle, and Modern.citation needed Old Dari/Farsi and the Avestan language represents the old stage of development and were spoken in ancient Bactria.
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Meanwhile, the languages of the Kafiri-Nuristani and Dardic language families, spoken in northeastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, have forms of Indo-Aryan that are considered earlier than their counterparts in Avestan and the RgVeda (Witzel 1995a:
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
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There are passages from the Zend-Avesta which seem to rise above this necessary dualism or essential twofoldness of evil as well as good in the composition of the world.
Christian Doctrine of Sin
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In the later Avesta this drink, originally only a medium of cult, was formally deified, and identified with the divinity; nay even the very vessels used in the fabrication of this drink from the haoma branches were celebrated and adored in hymns of praise.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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I personally find the accepted etymological cognate to Pgm *ansuz in Avestan anhu quite convincing.
The 'god' word in Europe
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Most terrifying in evil majesty was the Zoroastrian Ahriman, and it has been con - jectured that the grim dualism of the Zendavesta may have had some influence on Jewish and Christian demonological speculation.
PROBLEM OF EVIL
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These canticles are metrical in their structure and are composed in the so-called Gatha-dialect, a more archaic form of language than is used in the rest of the Avesta.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Another book called the Avesta, written by a Persian named Zoroaster, is also extremely influential in the Middle East.
Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind?
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The designation Zend-Avesta, which is often employed to denote the sacred code, is not strictly correct.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The Avesta was preserved orally and its original date of composition has been the subject of great argument.
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The lines are metrical, as in fact they commonly are in the older parts of the Avesta, and the rhythm somewhat recalls the Kalevala verse of Longfellow's
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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In its present form, therefore, the Avesta is a compilation from various sources, and its different parts date from different periods and vary widely in character.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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The religious system of the Persians, as taught in the Zendavesta, is known as Zoroastrianism, from Zoroaster, its founder.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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Avesta" denotes (perhaps literally) knowledge, being cognate with the
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
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The bible of the Parsees is called Avesta, which means the revelation.
Modern Persia
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Some, including Avestan, the language of the Zoroastrians and their sacred religious texts, and Sogdian, which gained wide use as a lingua franca among merchants and traders along the ancient Silk Route, are extinct.
The English Is Coming!
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Dr. Haug supposes that the earliest portions of the Zend-Avesta ought to be called Avesta, the later portions Zend -- Zend meaning, according to him, commentary, explanation, gloss.
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
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D. Whitney suggests in his very lucid and able article in vol.v. of the Journal of the American Oriental Society most fitly be called the Avestan dialect.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
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We likewise acknowledge the force of the arguments by which he shows that the books now called Zend-Avesta were composed in the Eastern, and not in the Western, provinces of the
Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
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This usage tends to merge the Avestan/Sanskrit meaning of "noble" or "elevated" with the idea of distinctive ancestral ethnicity marked by language distribution.
Steve Anderson: Tom Metzger & WAR: The Race is On and it Looks Like Heartaches
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Inadequate as brief extracts must be to represent the sacred books of a people, the citations here given will serve to show that the Avesta which is still recited in solemn tones by the white-robed priests of
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
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Szemerenyi rejects this rule because of Avestan zdī from *s-dʰi "be!
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring?
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In addition to the cuneiform inscriptions of Old Persian, there was also a closely related liturgical language known as Avestan.
