Doug Metzger
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first heard May 2026
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The book describes in extensive detail the domains and responsibilities of the
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of the six spentas or archangels of the deity Ormazd, along with the agents of these six archangels.
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The longest of these sections is devoted to a female archangel named Spandermaud, but each of the archangels are described fairly extensively.
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Angelology was a popular genre in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and after a long central chapter of the Bunda Hision that tells us about the six spentas of Ormazd, the book then offers a corresponding chapter on demonology.
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As we come to the end of the Bundeshion's long encyclopedic middle, it's important to understand that the same theme generally undergirds the whole thing.
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This theme is the conflict of light against dark and the alignment of nearly everything in creation with one of these two poles.
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The geography, zoology, botany, anatomy,
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Theorization on reproduction, meteorology and other topics in the book's middle have varying tinges of contemporary Greek and Islamic intellectual history, but they're all brought to bear to illustrate that within the great mixture of the created cosmos, some stuff serves Ormaz and other stuff serves Ariman.
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With the encyclopedic core of the Bundahesion behind us now, the next subject that the book covers has to do with endings.
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How individuals die, how the afterlife works, and how judgment day will come about.
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Let's take a look at what Zoroastrians were writing in the eight hundreds CE on the subject of posthumous judgment and the end of days, beginning with posthumous judgment.
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Zoroastrian theology emphasizes that when believers die, their souls remain near their bodies for three days in a state of anguish.
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Souls wait by expired bodies, in the vain expectation that they will be able to return to the places from whence they've come.
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And the Bundeshion states that during this crucial period, Zoroastrians keep fires burning next to the bodies of the recently departed.
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When the three day period of strife after death comes to an end, one of two things happen.
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If the soul has been that of a good believer who has worked on behalf of Ormazd, she feels a fragrant, heartening, joyous wind.
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Then the pious soul is visited by a plump cow swollen with milk.
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Then a beautiful 15 year old girl visits the devout believer, heartening her further, followed by a beautiful garden profuse with ripe fruit and running water.
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Yeah.
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