Zurvan: A Zoroastrian Dilemma |
Contents
THE ZOROASTRIAN SECTS | 7 |
ZERVANISM AND MAZDEANISM IN THE SASSANIAN PERIOD | 35 |
THE FATHER OF GOOD AND EVIL | 54 |
COSMOLOGY I | 80 |
COSMOLOGY II | 105 |
THE LUMINARIES | 147 |
THE THREE CREATORS | 196 |
THE GOD ZURVAN | 219 |
From the Šikand Gumāni Vazar Chapter XVI 53111 | 392 |
a Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter XXVIII | 396 |
b Aßyātkār i VazurgMior 12936 | 397 |
a From the Aßyātkar i Žāmāspīk Messina 14 1617 | 398 |
Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter XXVII | 399 |
b Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter XXXVIII | 401 |
Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter XXII | 402 |
b Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter LI | 403 |
THE LAW AND FATE | 248 |
RETROSPECT | 265 |
PASSAGES FROM THE AVESTA IN WHICH ZURVAN APPEARS | 275 |
Greater Bundahišn Chapter III | 321 |
Selections of Zätspram Chapter I | 339 |
From the Pahlavi Rivāyats pp 12737 | 360 |
Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter VIII | 367 |
From the Denkart Madan 203 16206 23 | 374 |
From the Denkart Madan 21 1524 5 | 378 |
From the Aßyātkār i Žāmāspīk Messina 2 2 | 381 |
From the Dēnkart Madan 128 16129 3 | 383 |
From the Denkart Madan 198 18199 6 | 384 |
b From the Denkart Madan 567 1014 | 388 |
From the Dēnkart Madan 282 7283 17 | 389 |
From the Denkart Madan 290 812 | 391 |
Mēnōk i Xrat Chapter XXIV | 404 |
b Epistle of Tansar Minovi p 45 | 405 |
b From the Dēnkart Madan 284 1320 | 406 |
a From the Denkart Madan 568 312 | 407 |
c From Ghazālī NasīḥatulMulūk Humāī pp 1234 | 408 |
The second Ulemā i Islām Hormazyār vol ii pp 8086 | 409 |
POLEMICS AGAINST THE ZOROASTRIAN RELIGION | 419 |
From Šahristānī Kitābulmilal wanniḥal Cureton pp 1835 | 433 |
From the Persian Rivayats Dhabhars Translation p 438 418 | 438 |
Anonymous Syriac Text Nyberg JA ccxiv 1929 pp 23841 | 440 |
GREEK TEXTS | 447 |
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