Cosmogonic Sacrifice

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" Cosmogonic Sacrifice "
Amir Ahmadi

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1068853
Doc. No	:	LA112482
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15728536-06001001‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Amir Ahmadi
Title & Author	:	Cosmogonic Sacrifice [Article]\ Amir Ahmadi
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Indo-Iranian Journal
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	60/1
Page No	:	1–16
Abstract	:	A number of prominent scholars of Zoroastrianism have recently taken up Marijan Molé’s thesis that Ahura Mazdā created the world by way of a sacrifice. This article examines the sources that have been adduced for the thesis. It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evidence for the supposed cosmogonic sacrifice. A number of prominent scholars of Zoroastrianism have recently taken up Marijan Molé’s thesis that Ahura Mazdā created the world by way of a sacrifice. This article examines the sources that have been adduced for the thesis. It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evidence for the supposed cosmogonic sacrifice. A number of prominent scholars of Zoroastrianism have recently taken up Marijan Molé’s thesis that Ahura Mazdā created the world by way of a sacrifice. This article examines the sources that have been adduced for the thesis. It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evidence for the supposed cosmogonic sacrifice. A number of prominent scholars of Zoroastrianism have recently taken up Marijan Molé’s thesis that Ahura Mazdā created the world by way of a sacrifice. This article examines the sources that have been adduced for the thesis. It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evidence for the supposed cosmogonic sacrifice.
Descriptor	:	Avesta
Descriptor	:	cosmogony
Descriptor	:	sacrifice
Descriptor	:	Zoroastrianism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15728536-06001001‬