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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If, on the other hand, the soul has been that of a servant of the dark, a noxious, awful wind strikes her three days after her death, and she sees a gaunt, ugly cow, a hideous, frightening girl, and a garden with neither trees nor water.
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Following this initial binary outcome after death, good and wicked souls alike are taken up the slopes of a giant mountain where they look out across a chasm.
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Out in the chasm in front of them, they see a way across.
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This way across is one of Zoroastrianism's most famous elements, known as the Chinvat Bridge in Middle Persian, but more generally the Chinvat Bridge.
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The Bundeshijan initially describes this bridge as quote an edge as sharp as a sword, that is as high, long, and wide as nine lances.
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A spiritual dog is at the end of the bridge, and hell is underneath it.
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When good souls look out over the Chinvat Bridge, it widens from a knife's edge into a broad thoroughfare, and bright fire lights the way across to the heights of heaven.
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As good souls cross, their souls are purified.
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As for evil souls, though, the Chinvat Bridge does not widen for them.
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Instead, it remains a knife's edge, and sinners are only able to take three steps out onto the span: one for their evil thoughts, one for their evil deeds, and one for their evil words.
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And after these three steps, sinners tumble off of the bridge and down into hell.
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The Bundeshion itself doesn't say anything about hell, nor does it say much about a third destination called Hamestagan.
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Hamastagan, the Bundah explains, is the place where we go if our good deeds are equal to our evil deeds, end quote, it is a place just like the material world.
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This is an interesting little part of the Bundahijan, this third destination for the departed, and the only added detail about the Hamestagan is that there each person is sorted in some way or another according to their actions on earth.
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And while the Bundahisjan describes how each individual will fare after death, the book also goes on to describe what will happen at the end of the day.
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Of times.
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As we learned in an earlier episode, another of Zoroastrianism's signature theological features was the Frashokaredi, or the final battle between good and evil, and its notion of the Seoshant, or a Savior figure who will arise at the end of days.
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Both the Zoroastrian Frashokaredi, or Armageddon.
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And the Zoroastrian savior appear in the Bundahishen.
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Here's what the book says about how Earth will come to an end.
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