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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Gathas''' are poems | <blockquote class="definition">The '''Gathas''' are a collection of seventeen poems/hymns, created by [[Zarathustra]] and handed down by word-of-mouth for generation. They (along with oral teachings derived from his community teaching) were finally committed to writing under the Sasanians, rulers of the 3rd Iranian empire.<ref>Boyce, Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 2001. p. 17</ref> | ||
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The Gathas were poems in an ancient form of poetry trace ("through Norse parallels) to Indo-European times." <ref>Boyce,l Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 2001. p. 17</ref> | |||
The poems were [[Mantic Poems]] 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."<ref>Boyce,l Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 2001. p. 17</ref> | |||
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The Gathas are a collection of seventeen poems/hymns, created by Zarathustra and handed down by word-of-mouth for generation. They (along with oral teachings derived from his community teaching) were finally committed to writing under the Sasanians, rulers of the 3rd Iranian empire.[1]
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The Gathas were poems in an ancient form of poetry trace ("through Norse parallels) to Indo-European times." [2]
The poems were Mantic Poems 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."[3]
