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	Simorgh - (CAIS) ©
		In the chapter on the classification of animals of the Bundahishn the three-fingered Sên is called the largest of the birds (13.10), and also the Sênmurw is of the species of birds (13.22); they are obviously identical.
		The three-fingered Sên is the largest bird (Bundahishn 13.10) mentioned among the large birds, side by side with the eagle (âluh) and the lammergeier (dâlman); this excludes the falcon, which is much smaller than either of them.
		The identification as a bat in the Bundahishn and in Zâdspram was an afterthought.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Mythology/simorgh_senmurv.htm (4766 words)

	Old Iranian Calendars
		But the Bundahishn states expressly that from maidyoshahem till maidyarem the night increases, and from maidyarem to maidyoshahem the night decreases and the day increases,[27] though this book interprets maidyoshahem to be the 11th day of Tir (i.e.
		Therefore we may reasonably hold to the description of maidyoshahem in the Bundahishn as the starting point of the shortening of the days and the lengthening of the nights, and put it on the summer solstice or the middle point of the longer summer (the warmer half of the year).
		But apparently the author of the Bundahishn, notwithstanding the fact that the point of time after which the day decreases and the night increases can only be one day, has considered all the five days of maidyoshahem roughly as the longest days of the year and equal in length.
	members.tripod.com /zafatash/iraniancalendar.htm (15117 words)

	Zoroastrian Sacred Sites, Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Bundahishn, however, places it in Seistan (or Sajestan), east of Iran in the region referred to in the Avesta (Vendidad I, 9-10) as Vaekereta, the ancient name of Kabul (or Sajestan).
		In the Bundahishn, Mt. Asnavant is referred to as the seat of Adar Gushasp, the Sacred Fire.
		The Bundahishn mentions as existing at this mountain a "Bridge of Judgement" or "Bridge of Moral Discrimination" which is a pathway leading to the Otherworld.
	www.sacredsites.com /middle_east/iran/zoroastrian.htm (3831 words)

	grb1
		The Bundahishn deals not only with creation, but with the nature of God and the devil, the holy immortals and the demons opposed to them, the structure of the world, and the end of time.
		The Bundahishn teaches a radical Dualism according to which both God and the Devil have eternally existed and neither is the cause of the other.
		At any rate, the fundamental point of the opening of the Bundahishn is that, although the two spirits are equal in the sense of being uncreated and always existing, they are not equal in the sense of having the same essence--they are essentially distinct.
	personal.stthomas.edu /jdkronen/grb1.html (3780 words)

	Religions of Iran: Zurvânism
		Bundahishn means 'original creation', and this indeed is one of the topics with which the book deals.
		Apart from this, however, it deals, somewhat cursorily, with a wide variety of topics ranging from Ahriman's attack on the good creation and the resurrection of the dead on the one hand to a discussion on the nature of plants, animals, etc., on the other.
		The myth of the two primeval twins who are born of Infinite Time is only attested in non-Zoroastrian and Anti-Zoroastrian sources: only the late 'Ulama-yi Islam among the Zoroastrian sources preserves it in a modified form.
	www.iranchamber.com /religions/articles/zurvanism1.php (5288 words)

	Pahlavi - Pahlavi texts on religious subjects - 2
		of the Iranian Bundahishn from Yazd; and in the same year it was noticed that the first two folios of the imperfect codex K43, brought by Westergaard from Persia in 1843, contained a remnant of the last chapter of the Iranian Bundahishn, with a colophon written in 1587.
		From this comparison of the contents of the Bundahishn, as known in Iran and India, it is evident that the chapters on rivers, lakes, the ape and bear, chieftainship, and plants are misplaced in the Indian extracts in K20.
		This is clear enough from the confusion introduced into the arrangement of subjects by this misplacement of chapters; but it is fully confirmed by the first three lines of the chapter on rivers having been written in their right place in K20, as well as with the rest of the misplaced chapter.
	www.farvardyn.com /pahlavi3.php (2871 words)

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		In their ancient text, Bundahishn foundation of creation, we read that The Lord of Wisdom residing in the eternal light was not God.
		Bundahishn, Foundation of Creation, two translations exist in English.
		The shorter one, the Indian Bundahishn, is by W. West 1901, reprinted in 1965.
	www.gifttoiran.com /about_nowruz.asp (2039 words)

	Order of Nazorean Essenes
		In the Bundahishn an attempt is made to fit this episode into an orthodox dualist scheme of things.
		Both the Bundahishn and the Christian Syriac writer, Theodore bar Konai, give accounts of the activities of this lady, but whereas the Bundahishn speaks of her as the 'whore', Theodore speaks of her as simply 'woman'.
		It is therefore somewhat surprising to read in an otherwise orthodox book little the Bundahishn that he himself confesses that, think as he might, he could find no other way of ensuring the survival of the human male except by creating 'woman whose adversary is the whore species'.
	essenes.net /~essenes/zurvan.html (17935 words)

	Zoroastrianism - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Most important is the account of creation, preserved in the Bundahishn, or Book of Primal Creation.
		These tales predict the defeat of evil, the resurrection, the making complete or renewal of the world (known as frasho-kereti or frashagird), and the final triumph and perpetual establishment of order and truth.
		Myths of spirits, such as Tishtrya (Tishtar or Sirius) who presides over rain, are found in the yashts (hymns or devotional poems) of the Avesta and in the Bundahishn.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761558789___2/Zoroastrianism.html (636 words)

	The Old Iranian Calendars - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Undoubtedly it was these considerations that led Roth [53] to suppose that the beginning of the old Iranian year (1st Frawardin) was originally on 8th March (Gregorian), and Bartholomae,[54] Geiger,[55] and others have followed him in this supposition.
		The existence of different estimates for the length of the solar year in Persia may be inferred from the different statements of the Bundahishn on this point.
		He has perhaps believed these days to be a stationary period, just as he considers the day and night equal in length in all the last five days of the year (in the same chapter).
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/celebrations/calendar.htm (13651 words)

	Gathas and Translation
		It links the story to the Primal Bull of the myth of Kayomars, (the legendary Gaya Marethan of the Avesta), both of whom were killed by Ahriman, only to find to his surprise that the double murder gave birth to the teeming world.
		Then we have the scholars of synchronism who would place the Gathas and Bundahishn -- separated by 2,800 years -- together to prove their theories of his (Zarathushtra) adherence to the primitive Aryan myth, legends, and traditions.
		These are but a few examples of how the word "gav" is translated, explained, interpreted, and imagined from a docile animal on a farm to the cosmic bull of creation, or as a metaphor for mankind, the earth or the universe.
	www.zoroastrian.org /GathaSongs/Gathas_and_Translation.htm (4833 words)

	Nowruz (Persian New Year)
		In their ancient text, Bundahishn foundation of creation, we read that The Lord of Wisdom residing in the eternal light was not God.
		Bundahishn, Foundation of Creation, two translations exist in English.
		The shorter one, the Indian Bundahishn, is by W. West 1901, reprinted in 1965.
	persia.org /Culture/nowruz.html (2008 words)

	Zarathustra
		This year can be found in a medieval work called Bundahishn: it dates 'the coming of Zarathustra', 258 years before the reign of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great, who is correctly said to have lasted fourteen years (336-323).
		The fact that the author of the Bundahishn knew the length of Alexander's reign, suggests that he had access to an unknown chronological text, and inspires some confidence in the number 258.
		At Kâshmar in northeast Iran, a famous cypress still reminds the visitor that on this place Zarathustra won a decisive victory in a debate with his opponents; his host, king Hystaspes, became an adherent of Zarathustra's new religion (text).
	www.livius.org /za-zn/zarathustra/zarathustra02.html (383 words)

	CalendarHome.com - Zoroastrian calendar - Calendar Encyclopedia
		As a result of the lack of intercalation embodied in the calendar reforms of Ardashir I, the calendar and the seasons were, over time, no long synchronized.
		In 1006, the roaming New Year's day once again coincided with the day of the vernal equinox, and it was resolved - in both India and Iran - that the Zoroastrian calendar henceforth intercalate an additional month every 120 years as prescribed by the Denkard and the Bundahishn.
		At some point between 1126 and 1129, the Parsi-Zoroastrians in India remembered to do so, and an embolismic month, named Aspandarmad vahizak (the month of Aspandarmad but with a vahizak suffix), was inserted.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /Zoroastrian_calendar.htm (1461 words)

	Greater Bundahishn [introduction]
		This Facsimile of Bundahishn TD Manuscript No. 2 brought from Persia by Dastur Tirandaz was published in Bombay in 1908 with an Introduction by Mr.
		Bundahishn occupies the same place in the Iranian literature as the Genesis in the Christian scriptures.
		Darmesteter taking into consideration a reference to fl skinned negroes in Bundahishn chapter 23, presumes the date of Bundahishn to be 862 A.D. Damdad Nask which seems to be the source of Bundahishn had 32 Kardas, while most of the Mss.
	www.avesta.org /pahlavi/grb.htm (12166 words)

	Magi - The two primeval Spirits and creation
		The story of the two primeval Spirits and the creation of the world is recounted in greatest detail in the first chapter of a ninth century book usually known as the Bundahishn or '(Book of) the primal Creation.' This survives in a longer and a shorter version.
		It seemed better to confine ourselves in the main to the shorter version because it is straightforward and is the 'orthodox' account.
		Between Â§Â§15 and 16 the longer version, generally known as the Greater Bundahishn, interpolates a long passage which cannot be reconciled either with what goes before or with what follows.
	www.farvardyn.com /magi4.php (2777 words)

	Angra Mainyu Summary
		In the cosmological myth of the Pahlavi texts, Ahreman (the Middle Persian form of Angra Mainyu) is directly opposed to Ōhrmazd (the Middle Persian form of Ahura Mazdā).
		The most coherent accounts of this are found in the Bundahishn and Wizīdagīhā ī Zādspram and have been conveniently, though not entirely reliably, transcribed and translated by R. Zaehner (1955, pp.
		According to these accounts, in the beginning Ōhrmazd existed on high in endless light, while Ahreman was abased in endless darkness, the two being separated from one another by the Void.
	www.bookrags.com /Angra_Mainyu (1921 words)

	The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - Christian Cyclopedia
		Other sources are texts written in Pahlavi, the medieval Persian, collected from the 3d to the 9th c.
		, of which the most important is the Bundahishn, a work containing cosmogony, mythology, and legend.
		Before Zoroaster the religion of the Persians was a polytheistic nature worship (see Brahmanism).
	www.lcms.org /ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=Z&word=ZOROASTRIANISM (753 words)

	Zoroastrianism - Encyclopedia of Religion
		It is, however, a central part of this optimistic religion that evil will be defeated.
		There is no idea of a spirit/flesh dualism because both the spiritual and the material worlds are the creation (bundahishn) of God.
		Humans therefore have a religious duty to care for both the material and the spiritual aspects of their existence.
	www.religion-encyclopedia.com /Z/zoroastrianism.htm (753 words)

	Zoroastrianism--Beliefnet.com
		And the question of Evil is done to death ad nauseum in the Bundahishn, Denkard, etc. Forgive me, but my mind is swimming at attempting to formulate a satisfactory answer.
		The difference is, of course, that where in the Christian tradition it was Satan 'the accuser' who tested Job's faith as a "prosecuter" (only later, after the exile acquiring his own domain, hmm...), in Zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda is not fickle nor treacherous, he would never ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac.
		Yes you will go to hell, the worst existence, or hamestegan (purgatory), but unlike the Christian God, because Ahura Mazda is Good, no one is damned forever (though there is debate whether or not Ahriman is allowed back into Perfected existence).
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=448&discussionID=483627 (1026 words)

	Culture of Iran: Old Iranian Calendars
		October respectively in the Gregorian calendar, the seasons would have been too far advanced in Iran for the agricultural and pastoral occupations attributed to them to have been carried out, as Marquart rightly pointed out in the case of the two latter (Untersuchungen, p.
		This agrees also with the place given to it in the Bundahishn, except that the latter book is less strict when it places the beginning of the shortening of the diurnal arc on the first day of the five festival days (11
		This theory explains satisfactorily many difficult points mentioned above, relating to apparent anomalies, and it agrees with almost all our data on this matter.
	www.iranchamber.com /culture/articles/old_iranian_calendars2.php (5759 words)

	Mehregan ( Mihregan ) , Persian Festival
		However what has been celebrated in Iran with it’s uniquely Iranian characteristic is based on the ancient Zoroastrian texts.
		In Bundahishn (Foundation of Creation), an ancient Zoroastrian text, Mihr day is mentioned as the day when the first male and female, Mashi and Mashiane were created from Gayo-maretan (Kiomarth, the first prototype of all humans).
		It is also believed that sun’s first appearance, and Feraydon’s victory over Azydahak (Zahak in Shahnameh) happened on this day.
	www.iranonline.com /festivals/mehregan-english-2/index.html (1276 words)

	Yatha Ahu Vairyo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It becomes impotent, unable to cause suffering, or unable to harm, as the Bundahishn tells us.
		But what of the promise of Yasna 19, that if we learn the Ahuna Vairya, and learning, hold fast by it, we will transcend our mortality.
		The Bundahishn, a later Pahlavi text, as translated by E. West in SBE Volume 5, Chapter 1, verse 22, pages 8-9.
	www.zarathushtra.com /z/article/yathaahu.htm (2202 words)

	Scriptures of Zoroastrianism, Bundahishn
		The Bundahishn ("Creation"), or Knowledge from the Zand
		Translated by E. West, from Sacred Books of the East, volume 5, Oxford University Press, 1897.
		All images on this page, all graphics, the html mark up, and all files at this site are © copyright V.Jayaram, 2000-2007, except where noted.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /sacredscripts/zoroscripts/bun_index.htm (123 words)

	Iransaga - The Heroic Age of Persia
		Much information about the ancient Iranians, their gods and the creation of their world can be found in the religious texts of the Zoroastrians, which include the Avesta and later sources such as the Bundahishn and Denkard.
		The Bundahishn or 'Creation' consists of Pahlavi (Middle Persian) translations of parts of the Avesta that no longer exist, while the Denkard gives a summary of the Avesta.
		These myths which appear in the part of the Avesta known as Yasht include some tales of very ancient pre-Zoroastrian origin, probably belonging to the pagan Indo-Iranian era.
	www.artarena.force9.co.uk /heroic.htm (422 words)

	BUNDAHISHN OR KNOWLEDGE FROM T (Adobe Reader) ebook West, E. W. Diesel eBooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		BUNDAHISHN OR KNOWLEDGE FROM T (Adobe Reader) ebook West, E. Diesel eBooks
		And, afterwards, the wind spirit, so that it may not be contaminated (gumikht), stirs up the wind and atmosphere as the life stirs in the body; and the water was all swept away by it, and was brought out to the borders of the earth, and the wide formed ocean arose therefrom.
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	The Holy Order of O:N:E:
		Even the question of the origin and nature of women does not seem to have stirred up any partisan feeling, for the myth of the Primal Whore occurs both in a Zurvanite context and in the Pahlavi books.
		The only difference is that whereas in the Zurvanite account it is woman as such who deserts Ohrmazd for Ahriman, in the Bundahishn she is disguished as the 'whore'.
		Moreover, once mentioned she is promptly forgotten; and the human race is represented as arising not from her union with the Righteous Man, but from the emission of the latter's seed into Mother Earth out of which he had himself been formed.
	essenes.net /new/Zurvanism.html (6343 words)

	Why our religion cant be practised in other countries: By Firdosh K. Sukhia
		To get a clear perspective as to why Zorastrianism cannot be practiced in any other parts of world except chosen few countries like Iran & India, several spiritual raisons d'etre can be given.
		For a clear understanding we have to go way back to Cosmogenesis or Bundahishn before this mother earth was created for a predestined purpose of Farshogard.
		For the Earth to come into existence and for its sustainance later, certain Yazatic forces were required for its constant nourishment, and its maintainance thereafter till final goal of Farshogard is derived.
	tenets.zoroastrianism.com /whycant33.html (1610 words)

	Encyclopedia Mythica: Persian mythology
		The beliefs and practices of the culturally and linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the Iranian Plateau and its borderlands, as well as areas of Central Asia from the Black Sea to Khotan (modern Ho-t'ien, China).
		Much of the information about Persian (old-Iranian) gods can be found in the religious texts from Zarathustra such as the Avesta, and in later sources such as the Bundahishn and the Denkard.
		The original Avesta dates back to 1400 - 1200 BCE but it was destroyed by Alexander the Great when he invaded Persia.
	www.pantheon.org /areas/mythology/middle_east/persian (181 words)

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