Yashts
Twenty-one hymns to individual yazatas (divinities) — Mithra, Anāhitā, Tištrya, Verethraghna, and others. The Yashts preserve some of the oldest mythological material in the Avesta. Darmesteter's translation (Sacred Books of the East vol. 23, 1883).
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
- 1Yasts
Hymnic veneration of Yazatas (divine beings) in Avestan liturgical poetry
101,516 words
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