Yasna

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These are like the most holiestest scriptures of zoroastrianism or whatever

Now obviously I'm not a zoroastrian and I don't like zoroastrians (because they worship fire and I worship Allah) but their top religious text, the Yasna is pretty cool, now the first thing I noticed was how close this shit was to indo-aryan languages cause Zoroaster's name is literally "Zarathustra Spitama" which sounds so close to Buddha's name (siddharta gautama or something.) Also apparently this was written by Zoroaster himself and it was preserved orally for like 2000 years (that's a long time so there's a lot of repetition)Obviously there's no proof that he wrote it because there are no manuscripts but he says he did in one of the verses

Y43:7-8

As the holy one I recognized thee, Mazda Ahura, when Good Thought came to me and asked me: "Who art thou? to whom dost thou belong? By what signs wilt thou appoint the days for questioning about thy possessions and thyself?"

Then I said to him: "To the first (question), Zarathushtra am I, a true foe to the Liar, to the utmost of my power, but a powerful support would I be to the Righteous, that I may attain the future things of the infinite Dominion, according as I praise and sing thee, O Mazda.

So he probably did write it

The following verses I also found cool and unusual because I believe an abrahamic religion probably

Y46:1-2

To what land shall I go to flee, whither to flee? From nobles and from my peers they sever me, nor are the people pleased with me [......], nor the Liar rulers of the land. How am I to please thee, Mazda Ahura?

I know wherefore, O Mazda, I have been unable (to achieve) anything. Only a few herds are mine (and therefore it is so) and because I have got but few people. I cry unto thee, see thou to it, O Ahura, granting me support a friend gives to friend. Teach me through the Right what the acquisition of Good Thought is.

>I know wherefore, O Mazda, I have been unable (to achieve) anything. Only a few herds are mine (and therefore it is so) and because I have got but few people.
Before zoroastrianism, the people of Iran used to follow what is basically Hinduism so that was definitely a change for the better. Also the way how he talks to the supreme deity is rather unusual

A few verses later, Zoroaster calls out to Mazda and says:

7. Whom, O Mazda, can one appoint as protector for one like me, when the Liar sets himself to injure me, other than Thy Fire and Thy Thought, through actions of which twain the Right will come to maturity, O Ahura? In this lore do thou instruct my very self.

Later on, Ahura Mazda says to Zoroaster:

14.O Zarathushtra, what righteous man is thy friend for the great covenant? Who wills to have good fame? It is the Kava Vishtaspa at the consummation. Those whom thou wilt unite in one house with thee, these will I call with words of Good Thought.

This is interesting but it doesn't really matter but the name "Kava Vishtaspa" sounds super pajeety so I wanted to include it