Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The creation of animals thus began with grazing creatures, and then animals that fly and dwell in the mountains, and then aquatic and earth dwelling animals.
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As the zoological section of the Bundeshion proceeds, it is, on the whole, a perfectly respectable effort to catalog Earth's species into different divisions and genera, although it has a few giggle inducing parts too,
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As when it claims hedgehogs and squirrels are types of dogs and that dogs are one third human.
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Speaking of humans, in the long central section of the Bundeshion we learn about how the many types of humans came to be.
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When the first prototypical man Gayamard died, the Bundahijan says, he ejaculated, and his semen was purified by sunlight.
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Forty years later, the initial man and woman, Mashya and Mashiane, sprung up from the earth.
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Though they would later be a boy and a girl, at the time of their creation they appeared identical.
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The beneficent deity Ormaz gave them a speech that included the pith of Zoroastrian teachings.
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He told them to work, follow the rules, quote, think good thoughts, speak good words, perform good deeds, and do not worship the demons.
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Close quote.
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And off the first man and woman Masha and Mashiane went.
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Their initial act was to take a walk and to contemplate.
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It wasn't long before demons assailed the first human pair Masha and Mashiane, and then
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Things got a bit strange.
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Poor Mashia and Mashiane pretty quickly succumbed to the demonic teachings, saying that wicked Ariman had created the world and everything in it, and not Ormaz.
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These were the first false words ever spoken by humans.
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The first human pair began dressing only in grass, and they discovered a white goat in the wilderness, a creature of Ormazd.
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they nursed from the goat, and although the goat's nourishment should have brought them back to goodness and light, upon drinking from the goat's udders the first woman Mashiane said, quote, The peace I felt before drinking the semen milk of this goodly goat was greater than it is now that having drunk it, there is something bad in my body.
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What should have purified the first pair of humans then only made them feel worse, and thus the forces of darkness gained an even greater hold over Masha and Mashiane.
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Worse and worse signs of Masha and Mashiane's apostasy began showing themselves as the pair became confused and benighted, and as the demon's power grew and grew, the first man and woman argued and argued, doing so for fifty years.
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