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«The Nature of Time and Space in Ninth Century Pahlavi Literature»
The concepts of time and space have an immense meaning in the Zoroastrian Cosmo-Eschatological scheme as it is presented to us in the ninth-century Pahlavi literature. While it is agreed that both concepts are essential for our understanding of the Zoroastrian view of the cosmos, trying to grasp the whole meaning of time and space did raise some problems. One of the main difficulties is the fact that the same terms are used in two distinct genres, one with a more philosophical approach to knowledge, Denkard III, and another with a more mythical narrative approach, the Greater Bundahisn. I would like to suggest a solution to this problem. I argue that in order to understand the use of time and space within the different genres, we need to understand the particular form that time and space have in ninth-century Pahlavi literature. This task can be achieved by understanding philosophical and mythical not as literary genres, but as modes of thinking, as Ernst Cassirer proposed it. In addition, the particular meaning of the concepts, which in both genres is described metaphorically, can be dissected from the text and analyzed with the aid of conceptual metaphor theory. Thus, I would like to present how the concepts of time and space can be elucidated by understanding the philosophical and mythical conflux of intellectual modes of thinking that can be found in ninth-century literature.
