Lincoln, Bruce. 2015. “Toward a More Materialistic Ethics: Vermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought,” Studia Iranica 44(1), 83-98. Absent from the Older Avesta, vermin and poison first appear in a few verses of the Younger Avesta, whose authors misinterpreted Yasna 34.5c (where they mistook adjectival xrafstra- for a substantive) and Yasna 49.11c (whose ‘evil … Continue reading Vermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought
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