The<nowiki>'</nowiki> Hadesta' which we now have it, is far from what it was supposed to be at one time when it formed as a wide and vast encyclopedi… - Italo Pizzi

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The<nowiki>'</nowiki> Hadesta' which we now have it, is far from what it was supposed to be at one time when it formed as a wide and vast encyclopedia. Nor was it the sacred code, the sacred book of all Irans, yes good of a single part of the nation. He was not of the Persians in antiquity, because from what Herodotus says about their religion, and from what is evident from the inscriptions of the Achaemenids, it appears that they professed a very similar religion, but not that of the <nowiki>'</nowiki>Avesta. The Persians, on the other hand, embraced it much later, that is, after the Vulgar Era, when the Sassanids solemnly proclaimed it, with the 'Avesta', the official religion of the kingdom.

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Italo Pizzi (C.E.1849 - 1920), Italian Iranian and academic.

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Although he was a Muslim of religion and although he had to live in times, in which of the ancient and glorious Persia only the name remained, he could, however, he alone, understand all the glory and the inherient and warlike nature of his homeland. (p. 123)

The pârsi has not accepted any words from foreign languages and differs little from the language of Firdusi, of the greatest Persian epic poet who lived around the thousand of the vernacular era, who can be considered as the first who with an immortal work, as Dante did for the Italians, has honored the language of Persia of his From then on the Persian went more and more corrupting with accepting Arabic words; and nowadays in the works of modern Persian writers it is nothing but a jargon, of which two thirds are Arabic, while the language has been preserved much purer in the countryside and in the villages, where it is not uncommon to meet some good farmer who in his pure Persian dialect, which by some was 17.)

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He is not subject to sleep, but he sees and hears everything, he is omniscient, and nothing in heaven or earth can escape him. He is armed with a club, and with it, well fused and well-savve, he goes sweaping the armies of demons and all those who deny him, whose weapons are thrown in vain by them at him.

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