Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
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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The Bundeshion is a third person narrative explaining how the world and everything in it came to be.
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But the Bundeshion also seeks to be a scientifically explanatory text.
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Theology, prior to the modern period, was never cordoned off from science, and much of what we are about to read in the Bundahision will constitute an effort not only to explain the creation of the world.
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world, but also to explain how manifold places and things on earth came to be.
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The ancient Persian world, from Achaemenid Persian times in the five hundreds BCE onward, was always a vast place that spanned many different lands.
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In a passage explaining how the rhythm of the seasons came to be, the Bundeshion states that the sun sets in different lands at different times of the year.
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The text describes how daytime in one continent is
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Nighttime in another continent, and the other way around, with a mountain that divides the world in half being the barrier between two different sectors of continents.
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These continents formed during the floods you heard about earlier.
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The tumult of the great first clash between good and evil caused mountains to rise up, and water to collect in great masses variously around the world.
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When it was over, there were seven continents.
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The largest and most central of these continents in the Bundeshion is called Khuanira, and it is the land of the Iranians.
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As the Bundeshijan announces, quote, It is not possible to go from continent to continent except by the guidance and power of the deities.
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Great barriers divided the continents, including seas, dense forests, and tall mountains.
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And just as the continents were climatologically diverse from one another, they were also morally different from one another.
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In the Iranian land of Juanira, the spirit of Ormazd was strong.
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But interestingly, in Juanera the spirit of Areman was strong too, because the central continent was the place where the battle between good and evil was playing out most tempestuously.
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Following the Bundeshans' overview of the continents is a long inventory of mountains.
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There was first a great mountain called Harburz, and it took 800 years to grow into its present form.
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And after Harburz arose, exactly 2,244 mountains grew in 18 years.
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