Avesta, Ahura Mazda, Angra Mainyu, cosmic dualism, judgment, fire symbolism, and Persian religious influence.
Ask against this tradition's indexed passages, source inventory, and relevant archive parallels. Follow-up questions stay with the same Deep Thought.
Public-domain Zend-Avesta selections for search, comparison, and Deep Thought context.
Public-domain Avesta corpus indexed across Vendidad, Sirozah, Yashts, Nyayis, Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and fragments for Zoroastrian comparison.
The Bundahishn ('Primal Creation') is the great Zoroastrian account of cosmogony: Ohrmazd's creation of the world, the assault of the evil spirit Ahriman, the natures of creatures, stars and sacred fires, and the final resurrection and renovation of the universe.
The Book of Arda Viraf recounts the visionary journey of the priest Viraf, whose soul travels across the Chinwad bridge to tour heaven, the intermediate state, and hell, witnessing the rewards of the righteous and the graphic punishments of sinners before returning with a message from Ohrmazd. It is a landmark of afterlife-vision literature, often compared to Dante's Divine Comedy.
public-domain Sacred Books of the East selections loaded
Older anthology selections remain indexed for quick cross-tradition comparison; the fuller Avesta corpus is indexed separately.
Read on siteSource recordpublic-domain Darmesteter/Mills Sacred Books of the East volumes 4, 23, and 31 loaded from Internet Archive OCR
Fuller Avesta coverage indexed across Vendidad, Sirozah, Yashts, Nyayis, Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, and fragments.
Read on siteSource recordPublic domain (US)
AUDIT RESULT: all four task leads are ALREADY in the corpus, so NO import (would duplicate). (a) archive.org wg904 = 'Sacred Books of the East Vol 4 - Zend Avesta Part 1' (Vendidad; Darmesteter, 1880); wg923 = Vol 23 (Part 2); wg931 = Vol 31 (Part 3) — together = the Darmesteter/Mills Avesta already indexed as text 'avesta-sbe' (version 'sbe-darmesteter-mills': Vendidad, Sirozah, Yashts, Nyayis, Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs, fragments). (b) Gutenberg #12894 (Epiphanius Wilson, 'Sacred Books of the East', 1900; 'Public domain in the USA') contains 'Selections from the Zend-Avesta' = already indexed as text 'zend-avesta-selections'. EMBEDDING/SEARCH GAP: 'avesta-sbe' currently shows 0% embedded (~3078 passages) — recommend running embedding/search backfill (admin_backfill_embeddings / admin_rebuild_search_index) so the Avesta is semantically searchable; this is the higher-value fix than any new import here.
Source recordPublic domain by age (West's SBE translations, 1880s-1890s) — to be re-verified from a fetched PD source before import
The themes this task names (dualism, apocalypse, angelology, fire, judgment, resurrection) are most fully developed in the PAHLAVI texts, which are NOT in the corpus and NOT among the Avesta leads: e.g., Bundahishn (creation/cosmology/eschatology), Bahman Yasht / Zand-i Vohuman Yasn (apocalypse), Dadestan-i Denig, Shayast ne-Shayast, Selections of Zad-sparam, and parts of the Denkard. E. W. West translated these in Sacred Books of the East vols 5, 18, 24, 37, 47 (late 19th c.), public domain by age. RECOMMENDATION: open a dedicated harvest task to locate a clean fetched PD source (archive.org SBE scans or equivalent), verify license, and import chapter/section-segmented via the bulk pipeline given size. NOT imported here — source body not fetched/verified this run, and source_url above is a placeholder (the Wilson anthology), not the Pahlavi source. This would expand Zoroastrian dualism/apocalypse/resurrection coverage well beyond the Avesta.
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