Meysam Saebi

SOAS University of London, Department of History, Religions, and Philosophies, Graduate Student

University of Tehran, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Archaeology, Alumnus

University of Tehran, Department of Ancient Culture and Languages, Alumnus

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Shapoorji Pallonji Scholar of Zoroastrianism,
Postgraduate Student in Religions, Politics and Society
at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Archaeological Anthropology Undergraduate Alumnus,
Master's Degree Graduate in Ancient Iranian Cultures and Languages,
from the University of Tehran,

researching interdisciplinarily on the evolution process of the concepts of space, time, and existence considering the myth-ritualistic function of Old Avestan Texts reflected in Zoroastrian Literature from the 2nd Millenium BC up to modern times: A focus on three significant formulae, the Ahuna-Vairiia, Ašəm-Vohū, and Yeńhē-Hātąm
Supervisors: Professor Mahmoud Jaafari Dehaghi, Professor Alberto Cantera Glera, and Professor Almut Hintze
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The Sarəδa (A Section from the MA Thesis - English Version)

University of Tehran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, 2022

The structure of a ritual text after canonisation, by repetition, would be maintained by interpre... more The structure of a ritual text after canonisation, by repetition, would be maintained by interpretation (Rezania, 2010, pp. 224-225; Assmann, 1997, p. 93). The first interpretations of Old Avestan texts are complementaries in Middle Avestan: Fraorəitī Hāiti (Y11.17-Y13.4), Fšūšō.Mąϑra (Y58.7-1) and Səraōšō-Iδā (Y56.1) (Tremblay, 2006, p. 247). These texts, in the canonisation process, used to be attached to the beginning and end of the main body of the Old Avestan long liturgy. In Y59.33, a Middle Avestan text (Y58) is mentioned as a “supplementary formula” (Tremblay, 2006, 258): “fšūšō mąϑrəm haδaoxtəm”. Moreover, the Səraōšō-Iδā is a variant for a sacrifice to Ahura Mazdā, which is frequently used in a solemn liturgy, particularly before the beginning of the Fšūšō.Mąϑra (Cantera, 2016a, p. 161) and before the beginning of the Fraorəitī Hāiti (Vr3.12). Furthermore, beginning the list of textual ratus of the Staota-Yesniia, an articulation entitled “sarəδa” (masc. acc. pl.) is mentioned in Vr2.6, connected to the initial Ahuna-Vairiia of the liturgy.

This section presents an attempt to locate the initial position of the ritual recitation of the Ahuna-Vairiia. We know it is not Y27.13 as only inserted in the Pahlavi exegetical manuscripts, and the primary ritual role of the Ahuna-Vairiia is dynamic through the recitation of the second part of the Ahunavaiti Gatha (the Ahumant-Ratumant, clarified in the 1st chapter). Then, what is the initial articulation that is signified in the lists of Ratus in the Wisperad?

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بررسی روند انتقال اوستا بر اساس اهونور، اشم‌وهو و ینگهه‌هاتام The Transmission Process of the Avesta as Illustrated by the Ahuna-Vairiia, Aṣ̌əm-Vohū, and Yeŋ՛hē-Hātąm (Table of Contents, Abstract, Preface, and Bibliography)

University of Tehran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, 2022

The Ahuna-Vairiia, Aṣə̌m-Vohū, and Yeŋ՛hē-Hātąm have been the focus of priests, commentators, sch... more The Ahuna-Vairiia, Aṣə̌m-Vohū, and Yeŋ՛hē-Hātąm have been the focus of priests, commentators, scholars, and philologists since composition hitherto. Despite the various interpretations and cultural transitions, the ritual importance of these texts has been preserved. The composer has performed rituals reciting Old-Avestan texts, and subsequent performers have canonized the collection. Priests, to date, recite Ahuna-Vairiia in ceremonies of pounding Haoma. They repeat Aṣə̌m-Vohū at the beginning and end of the main sections of the Avesta. The composition of Yeŋ՛hē-Hātąm was an essential requisite for the intercalation of Young-Avestan sections interspersed in the Old-Avestan liturgy. In later epochs, commentaries in praise and interpretation of canonized hymns have been attached to Staota-Yesniia, preluding or concluding it. By the Middle-Avestan text of Yasna 11.16-13.4, the introductory positions of the Ahuna-Vairiia and Aṣə̌m-Vohū have been fixed. All three prayers are interpreted in the Young-Avestan text of Yasna 19-21. Together with Wisperad, these sections have formed a solemn liturgy. These Avestan texts have been transmitted through an oral-ritual tradition. Since practising ceremonies and accurate recitation were essential, liturgical manuscripts have fixed the ritual instructions. Despite linguistic obsolescence, the interpretation of the Avesta persisted. The sources of Pahlavi translations are ungapped exegetical traditions, excerpts of which were collected in Pahlavi and Sanskrit manuscripts. In this dissertation, meanwhile analyzing the text of Ahuna-Vairiia, Aṣə̌m-Vohū, and Yeŋ՛hē-Hātąm, their ritual function, and Gathic sources have been investigated. Proposed hypotheses have been assayed considering Avestan
interpretations, along with Pahlavi, Sanskrit, and Persian translations.

Keywords: oral tradition, Staota Yesniia, Bagān Yasn, Kardag, Zand, rituals.

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Jafari Dehaghi
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera Glera

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Papers by Meysam Saebi

اهریمن نیست Ahrēman inexists

سرزمین آزادگان, 2015

This article is a brief review of dualism and monotheism in Zoroastrianism to introduce a glimpse... more This article is a brief review of dualism and monotheism in Zoroastrianism to introduce a glimpse of the theology of Iranian religions to interested students in Iranistics at the University of Tehran.

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A List of Middle Persian Phonological Transformations, Presented for the MA Syllabus of Zoroastrian Middle Persian Texts at the University of Tehran

In the following table, a general picture of phonological transformations from Old Iranian langua... more In the following table, a general picture of phonological transformations from Old Iranian languages to Middle Persian and their equivalent in New Persian is illustrated, relying on etymological studies on the Middle Persian lexicon (including Zoroastrian, Inscriptional and Manichaean Middle Persian).

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The Sarəδa (A Section from the MA Thesis - English Version)

University of Tehran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, 2022

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University of Tehran, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, 2022

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اهریمن نیست Ahrēman inexists

سرزمین آزادگان, 2015

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A List of Middle Persian Phonological Transformations, Presented for the MA Syllabus of Zoroastrian Middle Persian Texts at the University of Tehran

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