Cover -- Index -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription and Conventions -- Introduction -- General -- Orality -- History -- Languages -- Texts -- The Yasna -- The Yašts -- The Vīspered -- The Vendīdād...
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Cover -- Index -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Transcription and Conventions -- Introduction -- General -- Orality -- History -- Languages -- Texts -- The Yasna -- The Yašts -- The Vīspered -- The Vendīdād /Wīdēwdād -- 1. On Oral Studies and Zoroastrian Priestly Training -- Introduction -- Theories of orality and their followers -- Ring Composition -- The Oral Theory -- Aspects of Oral Tradition -- Transmission -- The economics of oral transmission -- Co-existence and coalescence of priestly traditions -- Orality and Content -- Texts and their Component Parts -- Texts -- Units -- Mąϑra, mąϑrān -- Priestly Training -- Initial Training -- Secondary training: Hērbedestān -- On recitation -- Later Developments -- 2. The Indo-Iranians, the Rgveda, and the Avesta -- Introduction -- Priests, Poets, and their Role in Society -- The hotar/zaotar as a 'seer' in quest of wisdom -- The patron, the poet and his reward -- Named authors of religious poetry -- The Textual Tradition -- Ritual and beliefs -- The power of Truth -- Indo-Iranian divinities -- Nature divinities -- Heaven and Earth -- The Sun -- The Moon -- Sirius -- Fire -- Water -- Wind -- Dawn -- Functional deities -- Vǝrǝϑraγna /*Vṛtraghna -- The Maker/Fashioner: Tvaṣṭar, Θβōrǝštar, Tašan -- Bhaga/Baga? -- Medhā́/ Mazdā? -- Gods with social functions -- Ādityas -- Varuṇa -- Mit(h)ra -- A(i)ryaman -- The character of Indo-Iranian gods -- Gods as Guests -- Asuras/ahuras and devas/daēvas -- The non-Indo-Iranian origin of some divinities and religious terms -- Implications for early Zoroastrianism -- 3. The Gāthās -- Introduction -- Approaches to the Gāthās -- Topoi: a Survey -- Two Spheres -- The primeval state and the wish to return to it -- Paths to the other sphere -- Creative Activity, Cosmogony -- Manthra, Manthrān -- Visionary Activity.
