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Texts — Iranian traditions
The texts filed under Iranian traditions.
Written once,
read ever since.
Texts and their dates
Texts in Iranian traditions
Iranian plateau, Mesopotamia and the Roman frontier, roughly 1500 BCE to the present.
10 texts
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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.
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Avesta Zoroastrian compendium of sacred literature -
Yasna Primary liturgical collection of Zoroastrian texts, and principal act of worship in Zoroastrianism -
Vendidad Zoroastrian priestly code and Avestan text - Christianity Gospel of Mani 3rd-century gnostic gospel written by Mani
- Judaism Book of Giants Apocryphal Jewish book expanding a narrative in the Hebrew Bible, discovered at Qumran
- Arzhang Disappeared holy book of the Manichaean religion
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Shabuhragan Sacred book of the Manichaean religion, written by the founder Mani - Kephalaia Manichaean literature
- Sad-dar 14th-15th century version of the Bundahishn
- The Book of Mysteries Religious text of Manichaeism
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Iranian traditions
Zoroastrianism, the Mithraic mysteries, Manichaeism, Yazidism and the Mandaeans.