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Mantic Poems are poems written during Connection Events for the purpose of expressing cosmological, theological, or eschatalogical truths.
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