Doug Metzger
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2,647 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Doug Metzger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's one kind of song.
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The same chapter says that a millstone grinding grain also makes a song, and that, quote, when water flows forth in a stream, descends from the clouds, crashes together, or when people and animals pass through it, that is the water song.
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And speaking of water, the middle part of the Bundeshion explains.
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How rain and storms came to be.
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The star Sirius is the central agent of meteorological events, the book explains, and demons try to stop the rain by freezing it, but Sirius, with the aid of fire, is able to prevail.
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Zigzagging to a new topic, the Bundeshion comes to the subject of evil animals.
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These animals, according to the book, are quote, snakes, scorpions, lizards, ants, flies, locusts, and many other similar sorts.
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Especially pernicious, according to the book, are frogs, dragons with many heads,
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and winged snakes.
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Among these menaces to creation mentioned by the Bundahijan are turtles and honey bees, and the book warns that ants can steal grains and heat them by using sorcery.
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Killing any of these creatures, the book claims, is an act of righteousness, and the discussion of evil creatures continues on in a chapter on wolves and other predators.
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Something called a garzog in Middle Persian sounds a bit like a werewolf, as it is a type of wolf that, when it bites someone, makes another garzog come out of them.
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Returning to the subject of how frogs are evil for a moment, the Bundahigian then offers an account of how
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A three legged donkey that dwells in the Persian Gulf is responsible for much of the world's rain.
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Now then, we've already heard some strange things in this medieval Zoroastrian creation story, but the description of this three-legged donkey in chapter 24, in my opinion, is up there in terms of being one of the weirdest passages from the Middle Ages.
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To our translators Domenico Agostini and Samuel Thrope and the folks at Oxford University Press, thank you.
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From all of us who don't
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offering us the following three verses.
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Quote.
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The three legged donkey stands in the middle of the Persian Gulf, and has three legs, six eyes, nine testicles, two ears, one horn, a dark blue head, a white body, spiritual food, and is righteous.
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