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SUMMARY:RELIGION & METAPHOR #4 - Alberto Cantera: The Conceptualization an
 d Deification of Ritual Actions and Attitudes in the Early Zoroastrian Tra
 dition. Three Samples: frauuaṣ̌i-\, mazdā and daēnā
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera (Free University Be
 rlin).\n\nIt is a feature of the Indo-Iranian pantheon the deification of 
 a series of abstracts nouns like Vedic arámati-\, Avestan ārmaiti "fiiti
 ng though\, devotion". In the last years\, it has been proposed that some 
 of these abstract nouns designate specifically some ritual attitudes or ac
 tions. Thus\, it has been proposed that the frauuaṣ̌i\, the pre-existent
  immortal soul of human beings\, refers exactly to the recitation of the F
 rauuarāne\, a section that opens each Zoroastrian ritual and in which the
  priest announces his ritual "elections" (for which god he is performing t
 he ritual\, according to which model\, at what time and with which priestl
 y college). Some years ago\, Cantera proposed that one of the most complex
  concepts of the Zoroastrian tradition\, daēnā\, refers originally to a 
 ritual process. Av. daēnā has an astonishing broad semantic range\, from
  "a woman that appears to the soul after death"\, to "tradition" or even "
 religion". According to my interpretation\, it refers to the "vision" obta
 ined in the course of the main Zoroastrian liturgy\, in which the intervie
 ws between Ahura Mazdā and Zaraθuštra are "seen" which are the basis of
  the whole Zoroastrian textual tradition. Furthermore\, the pre-senter is 
 going to advance a new interpretation of the name of the main Zoroastrian 
 god\, mazdā\, according to which it also refers to a specific attitude of
  the priest during the ritual.
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URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/religion-metaphor-4-alberto-cantera-the
 -conceptual/
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