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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Gathas''', | <blockquote class="definition">The '''Gathas''' are poems composed by [[Zoroaster]], during [[Connection]], designed to efficiently reveal cosmology and eschatology.<ref>Boyce,l Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 2001. p. 18</ref> The Gathas are part of the Zoroastrian [[Avesta]]. | ||
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==Syncretic Terms== | ==Syncretic Terms== | ||
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"These are not works of instruction, but inspired passionate utterances, many of them addressed directly go God; and their poetic form is a very ancient one, which has been traced back (through Norse parallels) to Indo-European times. It seems to have been linked with a mantic tradition, that is, to have been cultivated by priestly seers who sought to express in lofty words their personal apprehension of the divine....Such poetry can only have been fully understood by the learned; and since Zoroaster believed that he had been entrusted by God with a message for all mankind, he must also have preached again and again in plain words to ordinary people. "<ref>Boyce,l Mary. Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Routledge, 2001. p. 17</ref> | |||
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The Gathas are poems composed by Zoroaster, during Connection, designed to efficiently reveal cosmology and eschatology.[1] The Gathas are part of the Zoroastrian Avesta.
Syncretic Terms
Notes
"These are not works of instruction, but inspired passionate utterances, many of them addressed directly go God; and their poetic form is a very ancient one, which has been traced back (through Norse parallels) to Indo-European times. It seems to have been linked with a mantic tradition, that is, to have been cultivated by priestly seers who sought to express in lofty words their personal apprehension of the divine....Such poetry can only have been fully understood by the learned; and since Zoroaster believed that he had been entrusted by God with a message for all mankind, he must also have preached again and again in plain words to ordinary people. "[2]
