Doug Metzger
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first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Persians had lost control of Persia.
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Ormazd's fires had dwindled in Iran.
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For the proud old Zoroastrian clergy schooled in the Avestan language and the interpretation of archaic scriptures, the walls were closing in.
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As the Bundahijan states in a passage we heard earlier, quote, Since the coming of the Arabs to Iran and their promulgation of an evil religious view and evil will,
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They have turned away from the good religious view of the ancient Iranians.
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That lamentation is on the very first page of the Bundahision.
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The book then has a tension that runs all the way through it.
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On the one hand, the book promises the ultimate triumph of Ormazd and his believers in an age-old schema of light against dark.
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Guaranteeing that time itself had been created to enable the triumph of the light.
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On the other hand, the Bundeshijan depicts time as something that's gone off the rails.
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Always the thief of human life, the book states, time appeared to have failed to accomplish the purpose for which it had been created.
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It is possible and reasonable to read the Bundeshion as the testament of a troubled Zoroastrian clergy, one still resilient in its faith about the future, but at the same time uneasy about the present.
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Other 9th-century Zoroastrian books also reflect the religion's embattled status during this difficult period.
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And although it's possible to
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The Bundahision as the simultaneously hopeful and crestfallen testament to the passing of an age.
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As we bring this show to a close, I'd like to connect the Bundahesion to what we learned in the previous show about the late Sasanian period.
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The Sasanian Empire endured from about two hundred twenty four to six hundred sixty one CE.
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It was the third of the three great Persian empires from antiquity, and the third of them to have Zoroastrianism as a majority religion.
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As we learned in the previous episode about the Byzantine-Sasanian War of 602-628, the Sasanian Empire was as much a coalition of fiefdoms as it was a centralized state.
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Medieval, before being medieval was cool, so to speak, the late Sasanian Empire has often been mistaken as a monolithic kingdom due to inscriptions and other propaganda that has survived from Sasanian.
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