Indians and Iranians: The Priestly Religions

Mario Ferrero

Chapter Chapter 4 in The Political Economy of Indo-European Polytheism, 2022, pp 57-73 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter first examines the Vedic religion, whose rich archaic pantheonPantheon tended to inflate and blur the division of roles, making it unfit for the upcoming expansion in the subcontinent with its indigenousGods/goddessesindigenous cults. The BrahminsBrahmins were the paragon of a professionalPriesthood/priestprofessional priestly class promoting unified ritualsRituals like an incipient monopolist. Their Iranian cousins started out with a similar pantheonPantheon and a similar priestly class but did not have to confront an alien religious substrate in their migration; rather, a conflict was brewing between the gods of law and right and the gods of raid and might, which would come to a head with Zoroaster’sZoroaster reform.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97943-0_4

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