The structure of the sacred affair in YasnaSherwin

Subject Areas : epic

Sherwin Vakili ¹ (مدرس مدعو دانشگاه تهران)

Received: 2013-02-16 Accepted : 2013-05-15 Published : 2013-08-23

Keywords: Yasna, sacred affair, Vedas, Time, material elements, spiritual forces, Pentavalent system, Material (Giti) /spiritual (Mi noo),

Abstract :

In this article first the structural code of the sacred affair in Yasna has been investigated and its counterpart concepts of the same root in the vedic sources have been studied. Then the arrangement and organization of these centers of meanings representing the sacred affair is pointed out, and finally a pentavalent system has been suggested which on the one hand is connected to the forces forming the human soul and spirit and on the other hand is related to the elements forming the material world and in this way it welds the material and the spiritual worlds and also the great and small world together.

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