Gathas
From The SpiritWiki
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]
Notes
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]
