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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques. Symbols and values in Zoroastrianism. New York, Harper and Row [1966] (OCoLC)654601161 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin |
OCLC Number: | 172636 |
Description: | xvii, 167 pages plates 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- A.A living tradition -- B. Geographical and historical sketch -- Achaemenids -- Arsacids -- Sassanids -- Islam -- Emigration -- I. Forms of symbolization -- A. The soul and the maiden -- B. Multifariousness of the symbols -- C. The entities -- Asha -- Armaiti -- Haurvatat and Ameretat -- Xshathra -- Vohu Manah -- Spenta Mainyu -- The order of the entities -- Zoroaster's system -- Sraosha -- Ashi -- Ahura Mazda and the entities -- Mithra -- Airyaman -- Zurvan -- Mazdaism and Zurvanism -- Symbolism as a game -- II. The ritual -- The Kusti -- The Sadre, or shirt, and other garments -- The Bareshnum, or great purification -- Flowers, perfumes, handshake -- Fire -- Sacrifice (Yasna) -- The Haoma -- III. Emblems and insignia -- A. The gods -- Prehistory -- The Achaemenids -- The Arsacids -- Kushan coins -- The Sassanids -- The chariot god -- Mithras and the lion-headed god -- B. The men -- Kings -- Classes -- The degrees of initiation to the mysteries of Mithras -- IV. The human projection -- In the beliefs -- In the ritual -- In the ethics -- V. Mazdaism and Sufism. |
Series Title: | Religious perspectives, 15. |
Other Titles: | Religious perspectives |
Abstract:
"The parsees number a little over 115,000 and live in Bombay and in a few towns and villages, mostly north of Bombay. Although they are not, strictly speaking, a caste, since they do not belong to Hinduism, they are a well-defined community. They were among the first to open themselves up to European influence -- under the Brtish rule -- and this is one of the reasons for their prosperity. On the other hand, they remain a closed community, not only in that they never marry outside of it, but also in that, clinding to the beliefs and cusrins if their ancestors as to so may distinctive marks, they do not seek to spread them."--Introduction
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