On the Structure of the Zoroastrian Month
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9894183 |
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| Authors | David Buyaner (Email: [email protected]), David B Buyaner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 199-206 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indo-Iranian Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7246 • E-ISSN: 1572-8536 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10783-005-8896-3 |
| OpenAlex | W2091151302 |
| Language | EN |
The structure of the Zoroastrian month that has found expression in such texts as the Smaller and Greater Siroza, Yasna 16: 3-6, Greater Bundahisn 1: 58; 3: 2 and StayisnS i Rozag 1 did not escape attention of the scholars, who viewed some of its features as traces of influence of an enigmatical trend in the Iranian religion such as Zurvanism. As early as in 1931, H. S. Nyberg suggested that the Zoroastrian month owed its quadripartite division to the postulated Zurvanite conception of ''four Creators,'' i.e., Ohrmazd himself and his three ''deputies'' (Nyberg 1931: 128). Nyberg came to this conclusion on the base of the following problematic passage of Bundahisn 3: 2
Islam · Theology · Zoroastrianism · Ancient Near East History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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