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    The Avesta (/əˈvɛstə/) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language. The Avesta texts fall into several...
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  • The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. Avesta may also refer to: Avesta Municipality (Avesta kommun), one of 290 municipalities...
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  • Skogsbo-Avesta IF is a Swedish football club located in Avesta. Skogsbo-Avesta IF currently plays in Division 5 Dalarna Södra which is the seventh tier...
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    the world's oldest organized faiths, it is based on the teachings of the Avesta and the Iranian prophet Zoroaster. Zoroastrians exalt an uncreated and benevolent...
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    (Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, tūriia) is the ethnonym of a group mentioned in the Avesta, i.e., the collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. In those texts...
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    Avesta Motorstadion also called the Arena Avesta or Stadion Brovalla is a 12,000 capacity motorcycle speedway track located 10 kilometres south of Krylbo...
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    in Sweden. Football: Avesta AIK, Krylbo IF Ladies' handball: Avesta Brovallen HF Ice hockey: Avesta BK From 1644 to 1776, Avesta was the largest part...
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    Avesta (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɑ̂ːvɛsta]) is a locality and the seat of Avesta Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 11,949 inhabitants in 2015...
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    2001, p. 243, n.18. "AVESTA: YASNA (English): Chapters 0-8". avesta.org. "AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA: Niyayeshes (Litanies)". avesta.org. Franz Grenet, "MITHRA...
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    Avestan (category Avesta)
    from their conjoined use as the scriptural language of Zoroastrianism; the Avesta serves as their namesake. Both are early Eastern Iranian languages within...
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    Khordeh Avesta, meaning 'little, or lesser, or small Avesta', is the name given to two different collections of Zoroastrian religious texts. One of the...
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  • Zend-Avesta)
    exegetical glosses, paraphrases, commentaries and translations of the Avesta's texts. The term zand is a contraction of the Avestan language word zainti...
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    cf. Boyce and Grenet, p. 8). "AVESTA: YASNA: (English)". www.avesta.org. Retrieved 2020-07-28. "AVESTA: KHORDA AVESTA (English): Frawardin Yasht (Hymn...
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    named Vishtaspa (or Hystaspes in Greek). However, if this was true, it seems unlikely that the Avesta would not mention that Vishtaspa's son became the...
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  • Turan (section Avesta)
    times in the later parts of the Avesta. The Tuiryas as they were called in Avesta play a more important role in the Avesta than the Sairimas, Sainus and...
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  • the Avesta it is also called the Sarsaok. In the 14th century, it was said to have raided Iran, giving itself a name as a fearsome beast. The Avesta is...
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    The Avesta also names it as the first of the "sixteen perfect lands" that Ahura Mazda created for the Iranians. Some scholars believe that in Avesta the...
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  • Avesta AIK is a Swedish football club located in Avesta, Sweden. The club was founded in February 1905 as Avesta Absolutisters Idrottsklubb. The name was...
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    Avestan period (category Avesta)
     1500 – c. 500 BCE) is the period in the history of the Iranians when the Avesta was produced. It saw important contributions to both the religious sphere...
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