not written down (oral transmission) social development was determined by the transition from
nomadic sheep-farming to cattle-breeding and agriculture and eventually crystallised into a three-
class system which was maintained for many centuries to come. These classes were the priesthood, the
nobility, the peasantry (later on a class of artisans and merchants developed) (the slaves being
memebers of subjugated races)
the Aryan tribes migrated from their homeland Airyanem vajah (Vendidad)
Dragon King Azhai Dahka: Akkad, Elam: non-Indo-European people. Tra: Central Asian nomads
Dualizmus eredete: letelepedett irniak vs a nomdok, ami majd Zarathustra egyik alapelve lesz
Zarathustra: 6th century B.C. : Parsee church chronology, which reckoned the time between
Zarathushtra and Alexander the Great as 300 years. Vishtspa ruler accepted him.Ahura Mazd vs
Angra Mainyav: Ahura Mazda az egyetlen isten!, a msik csak dmon!
the cow, dog, cock were revered
Avesta: was committed to writing in about the 4th century (Sasanians). Indian Vedic languages=
Avestan language
Gths (sung strophes): composed by Zarathustra! 17 chapters of Yasna
Yasna (liturgy): Younger Avestan language
Yasht (songs of praise): hymns of gods of the Avestan pantheon: Aradvi Sr Anhit (Sra s
anhita= hatalmas, tiszta) bn yasht-ban dcsrik t. Mithra Yasht. Sraosha angel who guards in
their sleep thosee who labour.
Vidvdt (the Law against Evil Spirits): Jamshiddal kezddik, a szent tz gondozsnak szablyai,
klnbz hzillatok gondozsa stb.
Egyb: Khorda Avesta: collection of texts used primarily by the laity for everyday
devotions. Nirangistan, Hdkht-nask.
The teaching of the Prophet is said to have been written down by his son-in-law, pupil and follower
Jamaspa.
It is said that subsequently the Parthian king Valgash and the founder of the Sasanian dynasty,
Artakhsher I Papakan (224-241) had the scattered fragments of the text collected; tradition mentions
the wise Magian Tansar, an expert on the Avesta, in connection with the first Sasanian edition. But it
was only under Shahpuhr II (309-379) that the collection, arranged by the theologian turpt, son of
Mahrespand (c. 340) was given ecclesiastical recognition
Azerbaijan = azer-tz, payegan- rz
Zurvanizmus: Zurvan is a First Principle (primordial creator deity) aki, Ahura M.-t s Angra Manyut
szlte.(zruvan-id)
Gaymart (keyumars) was the first human.
The oldest Avestan manuscripts in existence today date only from the 13th and 14th centuries, most
of the others being of far more recent origin.
Hamadan= place of meeting Mdia fvrosa (els irni birodalom), nincs fennmaradt md nyelv
szveg! Az perzsa nyelv csak feliratokban (declaration of power) maradt fent. Feliratok: akkd,
elmi, perzsa, grg, armi, szkta. Elephatinban talltak egy armi Bisotuni felirat fordtst zsid
szvegek kztt (5. szzadban armiul beszltek a zsidk). Armi volt a hivatalos nyelv.
Akhajmenida feliratok:
Ariaramnes: 1930 on a gold tablet in Hamadan, rszlet: the great god Ahuramazda bestowed it upon
me. son of king Teispes, grandson of Achaemenes.
Arsames: 1945 on a gold tablet in Hamadan, rszlet: son of king Ariaramnes, an Achaemenian
Krsz: Krosz tekercs, Pasargadaei S s P palota bejratn: I am Cyrus the king, an
Achaemenid. A pasargadaei R kapun: Cyrus the great king, son of Cambyses the king,
an Achaemenid, says: When [...] made [...]
Dareiosz:
Bisotuni felirat,
foundation charter of the Susa palace: a tbla a Louvreban,
Gandj Name-i vizesshez kzeli felirat: son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian.
Gherla-i felirat Romniban!!!!! Szamosjvr. Az egyetlen Eurpban tallt akhajmenida felirat
(Dareiosz meghdtja kelet Trkit). Valsznleg ksbb vittk oda a tblt,
hamadani tbla.
Naqse Rostam: srjn, plussz People list, plussz 2 embernek (jviv) tisztelet felirat: Aspathines, the
bowbearer, holds king Darius' battle-axe. Persepolis, Susa, Suez,
Conversely, Persian influences the Middle Persian language ofthe Parsees in the phonetic
transcription of Zoroastrian works (pazand).
Yet this much may be said, namely that the fundamentals of Persian are
of south-western origin, connected with the dialects of the dynasties (the Achaemenids
and later the Sasanians) ruling from the very beginning of Persian history
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