Doug Metzger
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Wicked Ariman had flung pestilence and poison all over the planet, but the plants, proliferating from the first plant ever created, suddenly multiplied by
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By ten thousand to cover the face of the earth and combat the diseases that had come from Ariman.
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Soon there were one hundred and thirty thousand species of plants, and out in the sea a tree arose that grew from the seeds of all of them.
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While plants had done their part in the first earthly clash between good and evil, it was time for the first created cow to do its part.
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Though the cow had passed away, when it died, dozens of new species of grains and plants arose from its remains.
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And there also appeared a male and female pair of cattle, and then male and female pairs of 282 additional species.
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Species from which all additional animals would henceforth descend.
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What happened with the first ever cow also happened with the first ever human.
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When Guyamard passed away, his essence passed into the earth, and forty years later, the first mated pair of humans would arise to populate the planet.
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All of the creations of Ormazd then met the onslaught of the dark deity Araman, and more still, fire roared in conflict with the forces of shadow, and stars fought the planets, and the great struggle billowed upward to the highest celestial bodies.
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So this takes us about a third of the way through the Zoroastrian creation epic, the Bundeshion.
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We still have a ways to go, but before we move forward, it's worth pausing for just a moment here to ponder the uniqueness of this creation story alongside others we've explored in literature and history.
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Most significantly, we might say that what we've heard so far in the Bundahision is a sort of cosmogonical prequel.
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The Abrahamic scriptures do not spend any time describing what God was up to prior to the creation of the earth.
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In Genesis, God creates the earth right away in the very first verse of all Bibles.
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The Bundahision, however,
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offers a backstory, the tale of a primordial reality before time and space, and of the moment when time itself was created.
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Earth in Zoroastrianism subsequently is not actually the work of a beneficent creator deity.
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Earth in Zoroastrianism is a battleground from the outset, in which two supreme uncreated spirits are each vying for dominance.
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The victory of Ormazd is a foregone conclusion from the outset, and yet the Bundeshion still emphasizes that all of creation, from floor to ceiling, quakes with the strife between good and evil.
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