The religion of the Vedi for the Indians and that of Homer and Hesiod for the Greeks was but the expression of the ideas of the people, often subject… - Italo Pizzi
" "The religion of the Vedi for the Indians and that of Homer and Hesiod for the Greeks was but the expression of the ideas of the people, often subject to change and contradict each other because they were never fixed or determined by any sacred book of the nature of the Bible or of the <nowiki>'</nowiki> The Iranian religion is on the contrary the work of philosophers and priests, founded, he is true, over the popular idea of the continuous struggle between good and evil, but reduced in a system by elected and speculative minds and confirmed with a sacred code, immutable, which was said to be revealed by Ormuzd to his prophet Zarathustra or Zoroaster. (p 26)
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Italo Pizzi (C.E.1849 - 1920), Italian Iranian and academic.
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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.)
Anra Mainyu is very clever, nor could it be anything else, because, being evil par excellence in its totality, if it had a little bit of wisdom, it would also have in itself some good. Satan on the contrary, if not always, very often appears cunning and cunning and acute troubadour of deception and devious arts, identified then, for easy and fantastication of thought, to the scrutineering and inquiring spirit of man. One day, at the end of the world, both will be defeated; but, where Satan will forever remain the lord of the painful kingdom, Anra Mainyu, since then only the absolute reign of good will begin, will remain annihilated. It will be so then for ever the existence of evil.
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This great prince, to whom the West owes not a few things, acquired a beautiful glory of righteousness, so much so that he was long celebrated as such in the Persian and Arab novels, protected the arts and letters, welcomed to his canteen the philosophers that Justinian emperor had driven out of Constantino Thus, for him, it began that literary movement that four centuries later, or a little more, had to put head to the poetic composition of it book by the work of Firdusi.