The Sacred Books of the East. Volume 4. The Zend-Avesta. Part 1

by Friedrich Max M?ller

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford, 1880. This book is in English. This book contains 347 pages.

Genres: Religion, Theology, Philosophy

347 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2004

Reviews

[Hibiscus · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading religious scriptures requires some special mood. I need to confess that I didn't always approach this book with the proper attitude. Given my background, I thought that Zoroastrian theology would be readily understandable to me, wrongly. This collection of rituals, traditions, and rules is a true relict, a glimpse into a different reality, a world largely vanished in the fog of history. It defies rationality, it often makes no sense, yet the more dogmatic it gets, the more it mesmerizes and strangely feels real.

Let this be my first step into the message delivered to the prophet of Ormizd.