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Avestan (/
əˈvɛstən/ ə-VESS-tən) is the
liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It
belongs to the
Iranian branch of the Indo-European
language family and...
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Avestan characters.
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question marks, boxes, or
other symbols instead of
Avestan characters. The
Avestan alphabet...
- of Zoroastrianism. All its
texts are
composed in the
Avestan language and
written in the
Avestan alphabet.
Modern editions of the
Avesta are
based on...
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Avestan period (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE) is the
period in the
history of the
Iranians when the
Avesta was produced. It saw
important contributions to...
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Avestan geography refers to the
investigation of
place names in the
Avesta and the
attempt to
connect them to real-world
geographical sites. It is connected...
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Iranian languages are Old
Persian (from the
Achaemenid Empire) and Old
Avestan (the
language of the Avesta). Of the
Middle Iranian languages, the better...
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daeva (
Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 daēuua) is a
Zoroastrian supernatural entity with
disagreeable characteristics. In the Gathas, the
oldest texts of the...
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Avestan asha), the
sacred plant and
drink *sawHma- (Sanskrit Soma,
Avestan Haoma) and gods of
social order such as *mitra- (Sanskrit Mitra,
Avestan and...
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Xwedodah (Persian: خویدوده khwēdōdah;
Avestan: xᵛae¯tuuadaθa) is a type of
consanguine marriage historically practiced in
Zoroastrianism before the Muslim...
- Christianity, and Islam. He
spoke an
Eastern Iranian language,
named Avestan by
scholars after the
corpus of
Zoroastrian religious texts written in...
