Doug Metzger
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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As for the final fate of Ariman, the Bundahijan states that Ariman will skitter back up through the hole that he bored through the sky, presumably going back to the dark half of the spirit realm subdued for all eternity.
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There's just one more section of the Bunda Hision, which, assuming that you've been paying attention, you may find somewhat curious as we've already come to the end of the world.
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That final subject is what we might simply call ancient Iranian mythology.
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By the eight hundreds, Iran had been the seat of a single, evolving culture for 2,000 years.
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And just as ancient Greece had its Heracles and Perseus, medieval Iran had its own folk heroes.
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Many of these heroes were part of a mighty dynasty called the Cayenne dynasty.
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A number of Cayenne kings are mentioned in some of the early Zoroastrian scriptures.
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They are generally the good guys in Zoroastrian tales of times of heroes, and the Bundeshion brings them up a number of times in the book's later chapters.
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They are listed as the masters of continents at one point in the Bundeshion, and before too long the Bundeshan narrows its focus to a place called Eran Shar, which can be translated as the territory of the Iranians.
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Iran Shar, or Iran, was the best of all places that Ormaz fashioned.
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The second best place was Mesopotamia.
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The third was Merv, in the southern part of modern day Turkmenistan, above the border of Iran and Afghanistan.
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The Bundeshan names other territories, once within the Sasanian Empire or sphere of influence, ranking them from the very best to the sixteenth best, and explaining the benevolent and malevolent aspects of each.
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And within these sixteen lands, the Bundeshion lists great Kayan palaces and those who built them.
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The Bundehijan includes what we might call a begats chapter on the subject of the heroic Kayanian dynasty, hundreds of names in length, and then a more digestible chapter on the birth of Zoroaster and his six sons and three daughters.
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Zoroaster's ancestor, twelve generations back, was a man named Manushchir, and the Bundehigian says that all of the nobility
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of Iran trace their lineage to this same patriarch of the Prophet.
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While this factoid may seem like a back corner of a medieval religious tome, it's actually a fascinating clue about one of the appeals of Shiism in Persian culture during the 700s and 800s.
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Ancient Iranian families had been tracing their lineage to the family of the prophet Zoroaster during Sasanian times.
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Later, as Shia Islam,
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