{"id":1145,"date":"2024-06-07T00:19:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T00:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2024-06-07T00:19:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T00:19:02","slug":"5-the-avesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/5-the-avesta\/","title":{"rendered":"5. The Avesta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Around the 6th century BC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original language: Avestan.  The sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/avesta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" style=\"width:auto;height:325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/avesta.jpg 314w, https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/avesta-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I enjoyed James Darmesteter&#8217;s introduction. But the text is another story. It&#8217;s overwhelmingly a weird and repetitive set of religious laws, mainly dealing with the corpses of people and dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a waste of time. Repeated formulas of praise for a fuckton of gods and minor deities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the 6th century BC. Original language: Avestan. The sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. I enjoyed James Darmesteter&#8217;s introduction. But the text is another story. It&#8217;s overwhelmingly a weird and repetitive set of religious laws, mainly dealing with the corpses of people and dogs.\u00a0 What a waste of time. Repeated formulas of praise for a fuckton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-great-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrykooper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}