Search results for "Zoroastrianism"
showing 2 items of 2 documents
Nietzsche und die Worte des Avestā. Lektürespuren parsischer Texte inAlso sprach Zarathustra
2020
AbstractThe presence of Persian sources in Nietzsche’sThus Spoke Zarathustrahas been a topic of debate for decades. This paper summarizes the main results of a comparative study of Nietzsche and the ancient Persian scriptureAvestā. In addition to several secondary sources Nietzsche repeatedly encountered, there is strong evidence that he read Johann Friedrich Kleuker’s German translation of theAvestātexts reconstructed by Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron. Analyzing Nietzsche’s diverse sources of Zoroastrianism as well as his knowledge of this religion, this paper shows that many metaphors, references and claims in bothThus Spoke Zarathustraand in Nietzsche’s notebooks can be traced back …
L’acqua, la roccia, la santa. Santuari femminili in Iran tra zoroastrismo e sciismo
2021
The topic of the paper is Bībī Šahrbānū’s Shia shrine near Ray (Iran) which shows a continuity of places of worship and ritual practices from the pre-Islamic period to the Islamic one. It was a place of worship dedicated originally to Anāhīd, the Zoroastrian goddess of water and fertility, protector of the royalty of the ancient Persian empires. The symbolic connector element is the water, sacred to the goddess Anāhīd, and important in the Shia worship of Bībī Šahrbānū, but also in the Zoroastrian sanctuaries near Yazd, such as that of Bānū-Pārs and Pīr-e Sabz.