The Hymns Of Zoroaster

Author : M. L. West
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718657
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns of Zoroaster written by M. L. West and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of the foundation texts of the Zoroastrian religion, the Gathas (songs) composed by Zoraster himself, together with the Liturgy in seven chapters composed shortly after his death some 2600 years ago. After a substantial introduction to Zoroaster's religious thought, West presents the translations with facing page explanations of the meaning of each verse.

Author : M. L. West
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857731564
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns of Zoroaster written by M. L. West and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoroaster was one of the greatest and most radical religious reformers in the history of the world. The faith that he founded some 2600 years ago in a remote region of central Asia flourished to become the bedrock of a great empire as well as its official religion. Zoroastrianism is still practised today in parts of India and Iran and in smaller communities elsewhere, where its adherents are known as Parsis. It has the distinction of being one of the most ancient religions in the world: only Hinduism can lay claim to greater antiquity. The foundation texts of this venerable system of belief are the founder's own passionate poems, known as the Gathas ('Songs'), and a short ritual composed soon after his death, called the Liturgy in Seven Chapters. These hymns are the authentic utterances of a religious leader whose thought was way ahead of his time, and are among the most precious relics of human civilization. After so many millennia they continue to speak to us of an impressively austere theology and of an inspiring and easily understood moral code. Yet existing translations are few, divergent in their interpretations of the original Avestan language of Zoroaster, and frequently hard to access. M L West's new translation, based on the best modern scholarship, and augmented by a substantial introduction and notes, makes these powerfully resonant texts available to a wide audience in clear and accessible form. 'A thoroughly worthwhile and refreshingly readable translation of the Older Avesta, M L West's book will be widely welcomed, by students and general readers alike.' - Almut Hintze, Zartoshty Reader in Zoroastrianism, School of Oriental and African Studies, London

Author : Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin
Publisher : John Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns of Zarathustra written by Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin and published by John Murray. This book was released on 1912 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetic prophecies from the 5th century Persian prophet.

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns of Zoroaster, Usually Called the Gathas written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns of Zoroaster written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence Heyworth Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hymns of Zoroaster for Familiar Use written by Lawrence Heyworth Mills and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : D. J. Irani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415614481
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra written by D. J. Irani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zarathusthtra brought about important religious reform in Iran, giving a definitely moral character and direction to religion whilst at the same time preaching the doctrine of monotheism, which offered an eternal foundation of reality to goodness as an ideal of perfection. This volume provides a substantial introduction on the life and doctrines of Zarathushtra and compares the development of religion in India with that of Iran.

Author : Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hymn of Zoroaster written by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zoroaster
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536939033
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yasna: Sacred Gathas, Hymns of Zarathushtra written by Zoroaster and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoroastrianism, or more natively Mazdayasna, is one of the world's oldest religions, "combining a cosmogonic dualism and eschatological monotheism in a manner unique... among the major religions of the world." Ascribed to the teachings of the Iranian Prophet Zoroaster (or Zarathustra), he exalted their deity of wisdom, Ahura Mazda, (Wise Lord) as its Supreme Being. Leading characteristics, such as messianism, heaven and hell, and free will are said to have influenced other religious systems, including Second Temple Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam. With possible roots dating back to the second millennium BCE, Zoroastrianism enters recorded history in the 5th-century BCE, and including a Mithraic Median prototype and Zurvanist Sassanid successor it served as the state religion of the pre-Islamic Iranian empires from around 600 BCE to 650 CE. Zoroastrianism has no major theological divisions, though it is not uniform; modern-era influences having a significant impact on individual and local beliefs, practices, values and vocabulary, sometimes merging with tradition and in other cases displacing it. In Zoroastrianism, the purpose in life is to "be among those who renew the world...to make the world progress towards perfection." Its basic maxims include: Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. There is only one path and that is the path of Truth. Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then all beneficial rewards will come to you also. The most important texts of the religion are those of the Avesta, which includes the writings of Zoroaster known as the Gathas, presented here in this book which are enigmatic poems that define the religion's precepts, and the Yasna, the scripture. The full name by which Zoroaster addressed the deity is: Ahura, The Lord Creator, and Mazda, Supremely Wise. He proclaimed that there is only one God, the singularly creative and sustaining force of the Universe. He also stated that human beings are given a right of choice, and because of cause and effect are also responsible for the consequences of their choices. Zoroaster's teachings focused on responsibility, and did not introduce a devil, per se. The contesting force to Ahura Mazda was called Angra Mainyu, or angry spirit. Post-Zoroastrian scripture introduced the concept of Ahriman, the Devil, which was effectively a personification of Angra Mainyu. Included in this interpretation of the book is a list of Glossary terms for the reader to further understand one of the oldest religions in the world.

Author : Khosro Khazai
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782930473000
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gathas written by Khosro Khazai and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: