RELI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Vohu Manah, Anahita, Asha
2 Oct 2016
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It explains why things are the way they are. It lays out the whole cosmology according to the iranians. Cosmology = way of understanding reality, the world, telling us who we are and where we are and what"s our place in it. Myth (today"s meaning in english): something that"s untrue, misleading. It"s actually a way of making sense of things. Linear history: unique way of looking at time. Creation (thought) battle victory of the good. Moral choice , manichaean view (radically black & white, either white or wrong, nothing in between) you have the duty to either choose to work for good or for evil. Shahrivar (correct ordering of things, to do with ruling) Mithra (spoken contracts) (keeping your word) very important. Anahita : very important, can be traced back to the proto indo european she"s conceptualized as the heavenly river, associated with healing and acquires other functions as iranians come in contact .
