RT Article
T1 Cosmogonic Sacrifice
JF Indo-Iranian journal
VO 60
IS 1
SP 1
OP 16
A1 Aḥmadī, Amīr
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1562015370
AB 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.
K1 Zoroastrianism : sacrifice : cosmogony : Avesta
DO 10.1163/15728536-06001001