Vendīdād
The 'Law Against the Daēvas' — 22 fargards of priestly law on purity, demonology, and exorcism, including the Yima creation-myth (Fargard II). James Darmesteter's translation (Sacred Books of the East vol. 4, 1880).
Source context· Persian stream · Ancient Persian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Persian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Persian (2nd post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 550 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Vendîdâd
Zoroastrian law of purity: cosmic dualism of Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu expressed through ritual, land cultivation, and the defeat of pollution and death
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