It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evidence for the supposed cosmogonic sacrifice.". Believers are likewise expected to say their prayers in each of these five ghs. Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 1-16, New York, 1991. In the Mihr Yat we find that it is Mira whom the leaders of the countries worship as they plunge into battle (yim yaznte daihupatayo +arzahi awa.jasnto, Yt. 1-56). The general term for a sacrificial rite is yazin (also zin, to verb yatan), while yasn (Av. In rural areas of Iran, women also prepare sir-o-sedb, that is, garlic and rue (with some added herbs, seeds and spice) fried in hot oil and then cooled down by adding vinegar and water, thereby producing steam and an auspicious aroma (cf. The cult of the sacred juice is still practiced today by Zoroastrians. iv, gerund) to be worshipped; yasna- (OInd. 157-194. Achaemenid 558 to 330 BC Zoroastrianism mixed with polytheism, administered by magi. Essential for these matters were the selection of qualified priests (the general term rad master and specific terms zd and rspg), a master of ceremonies (radpassag-slr: see MacKenzie) and the patron(s) who arranged the feast (if this is the meaning here of hamkr; cf. We grow by giving and not by acquisitive greed. A derivative of the latter, Ved. The crypt is the place where the Zoroastrians have long been, until about forty years ago, in accordance with their religious principles, cultures, and traditions, and during special ceremonies to prey on the vultures of the surrounding mountains. Robert Langer, Prn und Zeyratgh: Schreine und Wallfahrtssttten Der Zarathustrier im neuzeitlichen Iran, Acta Iranica 48, Leuven and Paris, 2008. Mnushchihr writes that Ormazd, the lord of all things, produced from Infinite Light a form of fire whose name was that of Ormazd and whose light was that of fire. This phrase can be accounted for only as a clumsy adaptation of a Zurvanite text that must have said, in effect, that Zurvn created Ormazd. It is believed that this child, known as Offering 176, was sacrificed sometime in the 1400s. Antonio Panaino Aspects of the Interiorization of the Sacrifice, in Stausberg, ed., 2004, pp. It concludes that neither in Avestan nor Pahlavi texts do we find any evidence for the supposed cosmogonic sacrifice. According to the fragmentary cosmogony available to us, Zurvn, often called in the ancient sources "the great God," was the divine parent of twin brother spirits, Ohrmazd and Ahriman. Besides reflecting the particular ideologies, values, and interests of the priestly authors, this lack points to the importance of the professional priesthood values for Zoroastrian history, even in the present age. OInd. In Iran, melons are widely used; in India, coconuts. By their consecration, temple fires are traditionally considered as ritual agents in their own right, having their own personalities. The performance of inner liturgies requires special priestly qualifications and entails the following characteristics: the recitation of the Avestan Yasna (either entirely, or sections thereof, or entirely but with further additions and embedded in other Avestan texts); the use of specific implements (see LT) such as the sacred twigs (barsom); the marking, consecration, and tasting of a specific type of small flat bread (see DRN) and the preparation by mixing, pounding, and recitation of haoma, which is today made out of goat milk and water (see JIWM), ephedra twigs and pomegranate twigs, pounded in a mortar. On the importance of ddh in reference to the sacrifice, compare Pahlavi Rivayat 8g2 and they unlawfully slaughter at once 1,000 sheep and cattle, and they give the libation to the Dews (ud hazr pah ud str pad w-br addh kund ud zhr dwn dahnd) or Pahlavi Rivayat, p. 46.15 and their (the cows) misfortune is from this, when they slaughter (them) unlawfully (u-n duxwrh az n ka-n addh b kund). In Zoroastrianism, admission to the priesthood is based on merit. In India, most priests are nowadays trained in special boarding schools in Mumbai, where they also receive secular education. ZOROASTRIAN RITUALS. 2022 Encyclopdia Iranica Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The remainder of the story in 2 Maccabees describes a Zoroastrian connection to the Nehemiah tradition, which may further connect it to the Bavli's discussion of Chanukah: 31 After the materials of the sacrifice had been consumed, Nehemiah ordered that the liquid that was left should be poured on large stones. A summary of its 21 books, or nasks (of which only one is preserved as such in the Vidvdt), is given in one of the main treatises written during the brief Zoroastrian renascence under Islam in the 9th century: the Dnkart, the Acts of the Religion. It is written in Pahlavi, the language of the Sasanians. worthy of worship, sacrifice; dawa-yaz- (OInd. accept children of mixed marriages into the faith. It was then about four times larger than what has survived. Zoroastrian Middle Persian or Book Pahlavi uses the ideogram YZBWN (cf. Yet all indications are that it will soon die out in the homeland, a victim itself of modernization and of changing demographics (see Mazdapour). htr-), Pahl. They, indeed, should be invoked at the strewn barsman, they at the battles, they at the fights, they here when brave men fight in the battles (t wauh t wahit yazamaide t z startas barsmohu zaoy t wrranyau t panhu t ia ya nar taxma prtnte wrranyau). It holds similar principles, including belief in one god and . It is not known to what extent Zarathushtras system was meant to be exclusively the cult of Ahura Mazd. In Iran, a mixture of several (often seven) types of dried fruits (e.g., senjed [the fruit of the oleaster], dates, raisins, walnuts, almonds, dried apricots, plums, and mulberries; Boyce, 1977, p. 38) called lork is used in all such rituals. In many cultures there are found myths which recount how the world and/or elements in the world derive from the slaughter of a primordial being (Christensen, pp. Jivanji Jamshedji Modi, The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of the Parsees, Bombay, 2nd ed., 1937. In the case of the Bull, when he is slain in the Assault, various grains and medicinal herbs derive from his body, while from his semen derive the species of animals of the earth. All Zoroastrians wash on entering a fire-temple, to ensure that every religious act they perform is done in the state of purity of body and soul. Thus, in contradistinction to Mol, I find no comprehensive Zoroastrian theology of sacrifice, rather a variety of interrelated practices which cluster about the verb yaz- and its derivatives (see below). 10.33 has aoxt.nmana yasna raya waca sra (swita) mira yazi zaorby, I shall worship thee, o strong(est) Mira, with yasna in which (thou art) mentioned by name (i.e., dedicated to thee), with speech (spoken) at the proper time (and) with libations; and the following stanza surunuy n +yasnm (cf. Zoroastrianism. also the sacrifice of the Vymburadawas, Yt. The annual pilgrimage to this shrine, held for several days in mid-June, has become a kind of national event for Iranian Zoroastrians. The Khrda Avesta, or Small Avesta, is made up of minor texts. In the Achaemenid inscriptions of Darius and Xerxes, yad- is well attested. good sacrifice, offering; OPers yaana- (cf. (month) for sacrifice to Fire (Benveniste, Narten). Michael Stausberg, ed., Zoroastrian Rituals in Context, Leiden, 2004 (esp. yazdan), yaz-, than just to sacrifice (an animal), the choice of Aram. In interviews with non-priestly Zoroastrians about the priesthood conducted by the present author in Mumbai in 2007, the overwhelming majority of the 101 respondents affirmed that the priesthood was necessary in Zoroastrianism. To a Zoroastrian our thoughts, words and actions are part of a long battle between good and evil. After them it was the daevas turn, and they all chose wrongly. The kushti is tied around the sudreh, accompanied by prayers. In reality, not all kinds of sacrifices were being offered through fire in Zoroastrianism, the ceremonial fire is just one of the possible transmitting mediums of which each can serve primarily for different types of offerings. 45-58. Since in Vedic ritual both meat and grain (puroaa-) offerings were made in the course of the yaja, it is probable that the draonah included both; by the late Sasanian period the drn had become a cake offering (see DRN), retaining a vestige of its association with meat by the inclusion of the gudg). Vend. though representing Parth. India is one of the few places where it's still possible to secure a traditional and legal Zoroastrian funeral. This is probably a modern development, reflecting various projects to reform the religion stimulated by exposure to colonialism in India and nationalism in Iran (Stausberg, 2002; Ringer). The question of their origin is ignored, but it was implied, ever since Ormazd had taken the place of his Bounteous Spirit in the struggle against the Destructive Spirit. Inversely, some traditions go so far as to deny prayer to women who are in menstruation (bnamz); at any rate, in Zoroastrianism women are advised to stay away from the fire temples and other religious sites during their period. In the Avesta, he is the prototype of the human race, but not its progenitor, for it is from him that Ahura Mazd fashioned the families of the Aryan peoples (yahm haca rsa nf airyanm dayunm, Yt. Submitted tags will be reviewed by site administrator before it is posted online.If you enter several tags, separate with commas. A number of prominent scholars of Zoroastrianism have recently taken up Marijan Mol's thesis that Ahura Mazd created the world by way of a sacrifice. D. N. MacKenzie, A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary, Oxford, 1971. Av. Y. I abundantly performed also other services of the gods The wording u-m yat contrasts with u-m any-iz kardagn yazdn kard. (Optional) Enter email address if you would like feedback about your tag. The Hadhoxt Nask (Section Containing Sayings) describes the fate of the soul after death. In contrast to the inner liturgies, the texts recited in the outer ceremonies are not dependent on the Yasna, but on the orda Avesta (see KHORDEH AVEST; moreover, Middle Persian texts are added to a greater extent. Purity is a key concept in most Zoroastrian rituals, which require ritually pure spaces, performers, and implements. KZ: Philip Huyse, Die dreisprachige Inschrift buhrs I. an der Ka'ba-i Zardut (KZ), Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum, pt. Zoroastrian rituals (even those performed by lay women in Iran; see Phalippou for a detailed but sometimes speculative treatment) are verbal events, mainly comprising recitation of texts. 328-51) is located in the desert east of Ardakn-e Yazdat the northeastern end of the plain of Yazd. Sacrifice in myth and legend. Ddistn dng, chap. zhr. When Alexander the Great conquered the Persian empire about 330 bce, the old structure of society appears to have broken down completely, and about the worship of Mithra in Persia no more is heard. For those who can afford it, initiations and weddings are the occasion for lavish meals and parties; both are therefore highly costly events and markers of social status. However, another vestige of a myth of the primordial sacrifice of the Bull may be seen in the eschatological sacrifice of the bull Hadayan, from whose fat the elixir of immortality, the White Hm, will be prepared: gw hadayan pad n yazin kund az ph n gw hm spd an wirynd (Syns and his assistants) will slaughter the bull Hadayan in that sacrifice (and) from the fat of that bull they will prepare the White Hm, the elixir (GrBd., p. 226.4-5). Cyrus showed great respect for the nations he had conquered. It centers on the words of the prophet Zarathushtra, called Zoroaster by the ancient Greeks, and focuses worship upon Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom. Trailer. 7 ff.) Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, Essai sur la nature et la fonction du sarifice, Paris, 1898. In the middle voice (Skt. references, see Christensen, pp. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Priests in Zoroastrianism are called mobeds, who primarily tend the sacred fires. d/zbh does show that, in the minds of those who created written Middle Persian, yatan was strongly associated with idea of ritual, sacrificial slaughter by an authorized priest. Some Avestan formulae (manthras) such as the Yath ah vairii and the Aem voh, widely believed to be inherently powerful, are used throughout the entire register of rituals, from a short private prayer to the most elaborate priestly ceremonies. However, the true heir to the ancient motive of a primordial mans butchered body forming the elements of the earth, is Gay.martan (Pahl. The Indo-Iranians shared a common model for the performance of the sacrifice. Most contemporary Zoroastrians, however, define their religious identity in ethical and subjective terms, namely as a commitment to good thoughts, good words, and good deeds and the individual choice of the autonomous believer. Zoroaster's very first sermon (Gatha 30) asks each one of the audience to use his or her "light of reason" and then formulate one's own belief. He stands above a pair of wings that are outstretched from a circle. For example, Yt. Several temples have been erected in the diaspora (several in North America, referred to as Darb-e Mehr; see DAR-e MEHR, which in India refers to one part of a temple), but, at present time, none of them houses a fully consecrated fire. 14.44). Idem, Die Religion Zarathushtras: Geschichte, Gegenwart, Rituale III, Stuttgart, 2004b. In the Zoroastrian sources only a vestige of the mutilation of Twin is retained in allusions to Yama being cut in two by Spityura, a daiwic figure who, in the Bundahin, is identified as one of Yamas brothers. Earth and air are also considered sacred elements for Zoroastrians. A few centuries after the loss of power, the term dastur (priest, authority, minister) emerged to denote the higher ranks of the priesthood with the dastur-e dasturn (high priest) or dastur-e mas at the top (nowadays, this title is more one of prestige rather than of power). Zoroastrianism is one of the only religions to truly place an emphasis on the holiness of animals and absolutely prohibits sacrificing or harming them. For more information, please see our Johanna Narten, Zur Konstruktion von avestisch yaz, MSS 45, 1985, pp. Health For our physical well-being and spiritual upliftment. In addition to the Avestan manthras, there are formulae in Middle or New Persian (nrang), which are used in rituals, but they are also recited in short independent rites or used as amulets (see MAGIC i). bayz gift), lit. who worships the dawas; hu-yeti- (OInd. These were implacable enemies, familiar from orthodox Zoroastrianism as Spenta Manyu, Bounteous Spirit, and Angra Manyu, Destructive Spirit. Since this god was closely associated with Varuna in India and with Varunas likely substitute in Iran, Zarathushtra can hardly have ignored one-half of this divine pair without a definite purpose. XV). The religion grew to the point where it became the official religion of ancient Persia between 600 BCE and 650 CE. cultic site; bgayi- name of the 7th month, September-October (vddhi formation on *bagaya-; cf. The Greek version has the peculiar MAGEUSSIN, a denominative whose meaning must be approximately perform a/the Magian rite (Sprengling, p. 394). Idem, A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, Oxford, 1977. 37-38), the term for victim is pasu-, and this appears to be an Indo-Iranian inheritance, as Vedic pu- cattle, victim has the same semantic range as Av. Marijan Mol, Culte, mythe et cosmologies dans lIran ancien, Paris, 1963. At least since the publication of the seminal essay by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss much of the discussion has been devoted to a search for what essentially defines sacrifice. 281-91. hazomai stand in awe of, hagios holy, the verb is only securely attested in Indo-Iranian, where its usage was widespread (Mayerhofer, pp. pasu-. Veganism A healthy diet for a wondrous life. title = "Cosmogonic sacrifice:: A ghost Zoroastrian doctrine". For a full treatment of the yasna ceremony, see YASNA. As this myth has been reconstructed, the twins are named Manus and Yemo, Man and Twin. zb) and phonetic ytn, yc- /yatan, yaz-/, which MacKenzie glosses as worship, celebrate, recite. While these data suggest a broader semantic range for yatan (Parth. In India, visits to ta Bahrm fire temples, in particular to the one at Udvada (seeIRNH), are often referred to as pilgrimages. If we hold in mind that the broadest meaning of the verb would have been to worship a deity through ritual offerings that might include an animal victim and/or libation(s) and/or speech acts, we can reconcile a variety of contextual usages. This alteration probably dates back at least to the 4th century bce, for Aristotle said in the Peri philosophias (On Philosophy) that the Magi preached the existence of two principles, Oromasdes and Areimanios. worship, sacrifice, and yesnya- adj. By the mid-19th century there began a Parsi mission to dissuade their co-religionists from the practice, especially the slaughter of cows (Giara; Boyce, 1967, p. 40). There exists a vast literature on the subject of sacrifice, much of which has been devoted to theoretical issues. VIIa-b; Stausberg, 2004b, pp. Jean Kellens and Eric Pirart, Les Textes vieil-avestiques, Wiesbaden, 1988. cognate anman- blade, which has no connection with butchering (see Yt. b. Both proclaim creation to be an emanation from the divine essence, the Endless Light ( asar rnh ), through the omnipresent fire. . Zoroastrians turn towards a flame (atarsh/athra/atash) or a source of light while praying. The latter requires a separate ritual site. Worship Iranians worshipped normally in the open air or before the hearth fire. When he was thirty, he had a divine vision of God during . Members are dedicated to a three-fold path, as shown in their motto: " Good thoughts, good words, good deeds. yazdan. In Iran, this policy resulted in rather dramatic changes taking the forms of substitution (e.g., disposal of the dead [see BURIAL iii] replaced by burial), abandonment (e.g., the use of cows urine [gmz] as a cleansing agent), reduction (e.g., the number of times consecrated fires are given ritual care on a daily basis), relaxation (e.g., the requirements for ritual purity), and innovation (e.g., the introduction of weekly congressional prayer sessions in some places or more bourgeois settings, such as priests sitting on chairs at tables rather than on the ground, or women becoming formally appointed as [assistant] priests, mobedyr). I, Stockholm, 1917. However, it is insufficient to account for the role played by sacrifice in cosmogony and eschatology (see below), or in the fully developed ideology of the yasna as a daily ritual of integration of the cosmos. Only the hymns, or Gths, are attributable to Zarathushtra. 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