The Fractious Eye

On the Evil Eye of Menstruants in Zoroastrian Tradition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9205633
AutoresShai Secunda (0009-0001-9237-1591, Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of JerusalemMt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905Israel, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen61
Número1
Páginas83-108
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNumen (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0029-5973 • E-ISSN: 1568-5276
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/15685276-12341302
OpenAlexW2079611487
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas22

Like all religions, Zoroastrianism evolved, and its rich textual record provides us with the material to trace some of its developments across the centuries. This article attempts to reconstruct an ancient Iranian myth preserved in Zoroastrian tradition about the dangerous powers of the gaze of menstruating women, and traces its development as it grows out of the Avesta and interacts with Western philosophical traditions in the Middle Persian writings of late antiquity and the early middle ages

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · History of religions · Islam · Literature · Middle Ages · Mythology · Persian · Theology · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Zoroastrianism · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious studies