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PhD in studies of studies of studies (of the dēn) #dnaگورت azərpərəst #1
Jun 22, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
He did not wander into the desert, he received the dēn on Mt. Uši.darəna, also it’s not monotheistic. That notion really annoys me, especially when I see Iranians too constantly regurgitating it.

It’s also important to remember that religions such as Islam and Christianity, in their polemics against the religion, never once understood it to be any sort of mono-ism.
Apr 15, 2024 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Few excerpts from ‘Features of Achaemenid Era Zoroastrianism: some echoes from Yahwistic sources at Elephantine.’

By Gad Barnea (/@gbarnea).

1/ Image It’s an interesting presentation regarding historic Yahwist documents from Egypt and their preservation of AZ/Iranic elements, such as Iranic theophoric names (many being divinities found in the Avesta), the existence/presence of the Magi (Maguš) in the vicinity, etc.

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Mar 4, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I noted before in this thread that in Zoroastrian dialogues of the afterlife, there is a depiction of the soul and its ‘vision-soul’ (which reflects its status in the afterlife, as a form of judgement) as reconciling together in a form of marriage.
Image In Hāδōxt Nask 2, it explains how when a man dies, his soul or uruuan-, m., separates from the body and abides three nights near the head of the corpse. At the end of the third night the soul of the righteous man (ašāuuan) inspires a “sweet perfume” brought by–
Sep 26, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Thread on Nader Shah Afshar and his role found in Epic Poetry //

Nader Shah as a “saviour” of Iran and its monarchical tradition and a departure from Safavid dynastic heritage:
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Image As to what he “saved” concerning some of the political issues at the time, post-Safavid:

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Jun 24, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
More Manichaen texts ->

This one original manuscript (Or.8212/133) is fragmentary despite once being a larger scroll. It’s a document that details the beliefs of Manichaeist thought. In particular to these pieces, it contains a variant of a confession text named ‘Blessed Small Feast Day’, with a structure as follows: {Name of a Manichaean God + täŋri ‘God’} + “on this blessed small—
Jun 6, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
I want to dump some screenshots so let me continue this old thread:

The zodiac as the girdle donning Ištar’s body reminds me of how the kūstīg (sacred girdle) is worn by the Iranian Spendārmed (Earth-mother) in relation to the zodiac.
Image Inana-Ištar is given dominion over the heavens and earth (as a deity encompassing both aspects). She also torments both domains. She is a blood-thirsty warrior (the “Lady of Battles”) just as she is a comforting mother. Image
Nov 29, 2022 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Marduk does such, but that depiction is the deity Ninurta (the warrior-god in pursuit) vs. Anzu (“monstrous lion-bird” who steals the tablet of destinies from Enlil). #FunFact Babylon’s Marduk is given thematic parallels to Ninurta in his respective mythos in order to portray him as the superior to the latter — I love self-PR 💯
Nov 1, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
In ID/Inana’s Descent, the deity finds herself in a position of sensation of smallness/fear before an otherworldly, omnipotent power (Ereškigal & The Anuna), resulting in “a shudder” before the respective divinity (i.e veneration/respect). That translates what is meant by ‘fear’ quite nicely. At that point she has also been stripped naked of worldly attributes, and then is sentenced to die!

Now let’s completely change the topic and move on with Inana.

Interesting developments in the deity’s iconography:
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Her three figurations or paradoxes: her contradictory feminine/masculine, her heavenly/earthly (or infernal) domain, and in myth she is at the same time, ‘the betrayer’ (causes suffering) and ‘mother of sorrow’ (suffers).
Oct 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In Sumerian, the idea of “fear” is linked to the term ni₂ (𒉎), the equivalent to Akkadian puluḫtu. The word ni₂ also means ‘aura’ as the gods appear dressed in a fearsome radiance that causes simultaneous awe and devotion. “Four copper-alloy foundation figures depicting ancient Mesopotamian gods wearing characteristic horned crowns (c. 2130 BCE).” This radiance associated with reverential fear is also called me-lam₂ (Akk. melammu).

Some respective words composed with the 1st term: ni₂ gal gur₃ (Akk. namrirrī našū), ni₂ huš gur₃ (Akk. rašubbatu našū), translated as ‘to be clad in great/awesome luminosity’.
Jul 30, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Old Avestan philologists translate daēnā- as ‘vision-soul,’ and uruuan- (urvan) as ‘breath-soul.’ The breath-soul and the vision-soul are tightly connected with each other in the framework concerning communication with transcendent beings. e.g., The Vahištōišti Gatha (Y 53) envisages the meeting of breath-soul and vision-soul as a unified marriage, with the consequence that the daēnā- (active) lets uruuan- see (causative) the daēnā- ‘vision’ (passive).
Jun 29, 2021 • 33 tweets • 7 min read
Let’s debunk this occultic bullshit once and for all, shall we?

Zoroastrianism was NEVER “originally monotheistic.” There is no evidence among any Zoroastrian account saying he was born 258 years prior to Alexander. THAT’S THE SELEUCID ACCOUNT; calculated during 312/311 BC. https://t.co/hlIO0D2GkR
Image Said account CONTRADICTS ALL PREVIOUS GREEK RECKONINGS, which placed the Prophet/Seer to 6000 BCE and further (such as Xanthus of Lydia, for example).
Dec 2, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Yazata, derives itself from Indo-European *yeh₂ǵ/yag, to hold something as sacred; to faithfully revere it.

In Sanskrit this is yaj; yajatá, worthy to be worshipped (Av. yazata), yájati, he who “sacrifices”, yajñá, “sacrifice” (like Av. yasna; a word for a rite of devotion). In old persian this is “yad”. It means to holding something as very dear, in one case it appears by the OP term “baga”, which means “god”, in a month on the old calendar used by the Achaemenians (Bāgayādiš).
May 26, 2020 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A thread on “Iranian Mithraism”.

Mithra is one of the most revered adorable gods in #zoroastrianism. He has an entire Yasht dedicated to him, festivals in his honour (mehregan), and throughout the scriptures is described with a lot of vibrancy. That being said: who is Mithra then? Mithra/Mitra is a very old Indo-Iranian god. You can also find him in the ancient Indic Rigveda (as old as our Gathas) as the god of dawn, friendship, and oath, who guards over “ṛta”, the Vedic principle for truth/order.