-
Avestan is
usually grouped into two variants: Old Avestan, also
known as
Gathic Avestan, and
Young Avestan. More recently, some
scholars have
argued for...
- Like all
other verses of the
Yasna Haptanghaiti,
Yasna 39.3 is also in
Gathic Avestan and is
approximately as old as the
hymns attributed to Zoroaster...
- Old
Avestan texts that are also part of the Yasna, are in the Old (or '
Gathic')
Avestan language. The
remainder of the Yasna's
texts are in
Younger Avestan...
- but
Zoroaster deflects them all. In
Yasht 19.96, a
verse that
reflects a
Gathic ****ction,
Angra Mainyu will be
vanquished and
Ahura Mazda will ultimately...
- that
should be
striven for (Yasna 43.9, see also Boyce, 1975:455). The
Gathic role of atar as the
medium for
detecting guilt is not
directly evident in...
- The
Gathic nasks contain commentaries on the
Gathas of
Zarathustra and are
consequently named after them. The
Denkard also ****ociates the
Gathic nasks...
- by two
other minor hymns at
Yasna 42 and 52. The
language of the Gathas,
Gathic or Old Avestan,
belongs to the old
Iranian language group that is a sub-group...
- ˈɪʃiə/;
airyaman išya, airyə̄mā išyō) is Zoroastrianism's
fourth of the four
Gathic Avestan manthras, and one of the most
important prayers in Zoroastrianism...
-
increase its impressiveness". This
appears to have been done by
joining the
Gathic Staota Yesnya with the
haoma ceremony. Furthermore, it is
believed that...
-
epithet is "of the
bloody mace". Tri-syllabic
aeshma is
already attested in
Gathic Avestan as aēšəma,
though not yet—at that
early stage—as an entity. The...
