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Avesta

coreattestedc. 1000 BCE onwardZoroastrianism

Primary collection of Zoroastrian sacred texts.

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✦Signature powerThe WordIts verses bind, guide, and outlive the hands that wrote them.

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Illustrated storyThe War of Light and DarkThe oldest telling of the oldest war: two spirits, one who chose truth and one who chose the Lie, and a universe made as the battlefield between them. Ahura Mazda lays a trap of light; Angra Mainyu charges into it; and the whole of history, three ages, a chosen prophet, a final saviour born from a lake, is the long campaign to a promised morning when death itself is undone. The root of every light-against-dark story that came after.Begin reading →