Prof. Almut Hintze (SOAS) Inaugural Lecture - Change and Continuity in the Zoroastrian Tradition
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Almut Hintze is Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS
This lecture discusses archaic and innovative features of Zoroastrian religious belief and practice and engages in the current scholarly debate on the growth of the Zoroastrian tradition. Almut Hintze is Zartoshty Professor of Zoroastrianism at SOAS. Holding degrees from the universities of Heidelberg, Oxford, Erlangen and Berlin, her field is Zoroastrian literature and religion. Her major publications include a study of the semantics of words for 'reward' in Vedic and Avestan (2000) and commentaries and annotated editions of Zoroastrian texts, including the Avestan Zamyād Yašt (1994) and the Yasna Haptanghaiti (2007).
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She ends by stressing the elevation of Ahura Mazda as "the only god to be worshiped," but before she discussed the incorporation of the worship of other gods (specifically goddesses Anahita and Homa). There seems to be a contradiction here between saying Ahura Mazda is the only God to be worshiped while also admitting to the existence and worthiness of worship of other gods.
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon. The Persians worshipped Mardokh as it is mentioned in Cyrus Cylinder.... 539 BC persians were not Zoroastrians....
Zarathustra was from Magus tribe one of 6 Median tribes.... The Armenians called the Kurdish language the language of the Medes.
you know that your people are part of other countries right? that proves a lot. so all of your history belong to a lot of others. please don't try to say that zartosht belong to kurds.... thats just wrong. i understand that alot of kurds kept this religion alive but it is a persian religion.
But the Karduchi tribe got rid of the Persian rule over their homeland, that says something about how strong Kurds are, even when we have nothing, we can chase an empire away from our homeland.
The Druj correspond to those who are of the spiritual tendency to worship what would be called "Nephilim". The Archons would correspond to those who engineered the Nephilim, on the one hand, and those who serve the Angra Mainyu, or the "evil mind", which is in all cases the ultimate evil force, the enemy of Right, the Elohim, most monstrous of which is Yahweh/Jehovah (who singly invented all its progeny, as it was also erroneously begotten this way, and it does so in woeful blindness and desperate obsession stemming from a fundamental defect, which arose from an "alien cause", a cause alien to what is Right being a sufficient discriminating feature in all possible worlds, being neither Good nor True, hence not Just, neither transcendentally nor immanently, neither ever before nor ever after, and hence subject to the most fundamental judgment whose only remedy is banishment from existence.
Therefore, Zoroaster, in this context, corresponds with Lucifer/Prometheus/Christos in their proper and essential interpretation as ultimate spiritual forces manifesting, in mythopoemic and-or historical form, the ultimate potential of truly spiritual humans, referred to as the "Mazda Cult". If anyone is to experience and manifest Truth and Justice, it could be none other than those who are predisposed and willing to do so. The Mazda Cult is a manifestation of an actual metaphysical reality, taking a fundamental cultural and physical form on issues which naturally pit them in opposition to those who are, in fact, Druj. It is simply that Zartosht has emphasized a metaphysical aspect of this conflict which demonstrates that it is, upon revelation of Truth, is the liberation of the Right from the influence of wrong. In Confucian terms it represents the ultimate goal which is to completely conquer, by all means, that which corresponds to wrongfulness in any form.
This profound realization manifests as a deep ritual, prayer, and ceremony which, in all cases, marks the point just past a NON-existent "mid-point" of the cosmos of conflict between Good and evil. Hence, the Demons realized that their false-godhood was coming to an end. The inevitable revelation to all was just a long-feared remind for them. The Relation of Truth thus enables and leads to the Liberation of Light. The Liberation of Light is the liberation of an inevitability from a potential to an earnestly actualized form: i.e. it Liberates the Inevitability which is known also as the Immanentization of the Eschaton, the Final and Inevitable Liberation of All and Every Particle of Light from this then SEALED AWAY realm of corruption.
Exactly how this is the "Beginning of the End" and how what came before was the End of the Beginning, and how these do not pivot on the same point in time, can be demonstrated even if we do not know what "The End of the Beginning" referred to. But since we know that the Revelation of Truth on this level portended the annihilation of the false existence, that there would begin a process which, in large waves, drained the world of Light, resulting in the disentangling and separation of Light from Dark, Good from Evil, by means of the irreversible processes which the critical Revelation of Truth enabled, then we know that the End of the Beginning is the Revelation of Truth, and the Beginning of the End is the Liberation of Light is the attainment of liberation from delusion of someone capable of tilting the "war of attrition" beyond the point of no return for evil. This is the grain of sand that tilted the scale, or the boulder of rock which balanced the scale plus one grain of sand in weight.
Either way, it began what would become a final "Anubis Moment" for the entire world. That is the End of the End, and the time for this world, and hence the end of this world entirely. A result that, no matter how great, still yet resulted from a cause that, no matter how small, was still sufficient to produce it, such that a single exception to the rulership of evil would finally destroy the entire realm, no matter what was done to forestall it anymore. Deception can no longer work in a deep and fundamental way, and now the game must be a juggling show of extreme distortions in order to delay the inevitable. An inevitable which, judging from world events, must come very soon for sure.
Make your mouth not too long!!
Zeradesht / Zoroastrian
Zer is yellow in Kurdish language & Desht is countryside! It's stil my mother language! Fire is oure symbol. Kurdish new year 2713.
He was Kurd, if you want proof, go to Kurdistan there are many symbols of the sun, we still speak the same language of Avesta! How can you prove that he was Iranian or ...?