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The '[Avestā|Avesta]]' is not an organic book, it is not the work of a single creative and thinking mind, yes well the collection of several works, i… - Italo Pizzi
" "The '[Avestā|Avesta]]' is not an organic book, it is not the work of a single creative and thinking mind, yes well the collection of several works, indeed of fragments of several works that have been lost. It therefore, due to the varied nature of the parts that compose it, can interest the public and scholars in two distinct and different ways. It may interest the philosopher and the theologian as the sacred code of a religion already famous in antiquity; it may interest the historian, the literate, the poet, in that part of it that touches life and customs, the ideas of people lived in remote ages, and expresses, maxims in the poetic part, thoughts, affections, vows, aspirations.
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Italo Pizzi (C.E.1849 - 1920), Italian Iranian and academic.
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The name Ahura, like the name of Yahveh that the Bible gives to the God of Israel, means Being, that is, Being par excellence; and it is obvious to understand that such a concept, high and sublime, mere and pure metaphysical abstraction, can only proceed from an elected speculative mind, can belong to the And would this idea come to Zarathustra from the Semites, indeed from the Jews?
Anra Mainyu tries by all means to destroy, to annihilate the work of Ahura Mazdao, and there, in the bottom of the cold and gloomy north, stands the seat of the demons he procreated, while under the shining plague of the southern sky, there is the way traveled by the alone, there is the happy seat of the blessed.
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However, the Iranian ingenuity was not extinguished; which on the contrary, as always happens when a civilized people is subject to a stronger, but still barbaric and crude, those crude and barbaric inhabitants of the desert all, or almost everything, had to learn what is about political, military and literary art.
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