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<blockquote class="definition">''Mantic Poems'' are poems written during [[Connection Events]] for the purpose of expressing cosmological, theological, or eschatalogical truths. </blockquote> | <blockquote class="definition">''Mantic Poems'' are poems written during [[Connection Events]] for the purpose of expressing the complex cosmological, theological, psychological, sociological, or eschatalogical truths derived through connection experience. </blockquote> | ||
==Syncretic Terms== | ==Syncretic Terms== | ||
Revision as of 16:00, 30 April 2020
Mantic Poems are poems written during Connection Events for the purpose of expressing the complex cosmological, theological, psychological, sociological, or eschatalogical truths derived through connection experience.
Syncretic Terms
Connection Poem > Mantic Poems
Notes
The Zoroastrian Gathas are Mantic poems.
Mantic poems are poems written in a "mantic tradition...cultivated by priestly seers who sought to express in lofty words their personal apprehension of the divine; and it is marked by subtleties of allusion, and great richness and complexity of style."[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Boyce,l Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 2001. p. 17
