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Zoroastrian literature is the corpus of literary texts produced within the religious tradition of Zoroastrianism. These texts span the languages of Avestan , named after the famous Zoroastrian work known as the Avesta , and Middle Persian (Pahlavi), which includes a range of Middle Persian literature .
The principal text in the liturgical group is the Yasna, which takes its name from the Yasna ceremony, Zoroastrianism's primary act of worship, at which the Yasna text is recited. The most important portion of the Yasna texts are the five Gathas, consisting of seventeen hymns attributed to Zoroaster himself.
According to this view, the Sasanian Avesta formed a Sasanian archetype and some portions of it were regularily quoted in the liturgies. These texts simply survived since they happend to have be in regular use, whereas the Sasanian Avesta became lost when the scholary tradition detoriated as Zoroastrianism became increasingly marginalized.
These ideas later passed on to Christianity via Zoroastrian-inspired texts of the Old Testament. [213] According to some sources, such as The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906), [214] there exist many similarities between Zoroastrianism and Judaism. This has led some to propose that key Zoroastrian concepts influenced Judaism.
The religion expressed in the Young Avestan texts already exhibits the main elements associated with Zoroastrianism. [ 97 ] The dualism of the Old Avestan texts is now expressed in the divine sphere as the opposition between Ahura Mazda ( the Wise Lord ), whose name is now fixed, and Angra Mainyu ( Avestan : 𐬀𐬢𐬭𐬀 ...
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The Yasna Haptanghaiti (Yasna Haptaŋhāiti) (YH), Avestan for "Worship in Seven Chapters," is a set of seven hymns within the greater Yasna collection, the primary liturgical texts of the Zoroastrian Avesta. It is generally believed that the YH spans Yasna 35.2- or 35.3–41. [1]
Zoroastrian or Iranian cosmology refers to the origins and structure (cosmography) of the cosmos in Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrian literature describing cosmographical beliefs include the Avesta (especially in its description of Avestan geography) and, in later Middle Persian literature, texts including the Bundahishn, Denkard, and the Wizidagiha-i Zadspram.