Bundahg
Bundahg, also spelled Bundahišn or Bundahishn, is a Zoroastrian treatise on cosmogony and cosmology written in Middle Persian. The title means “Primal Creation” or “That which has been created.” It is a key source for pre-Islamic Iranian myth and lore. Although the exact authorship is unknown, most scholars date the work to the early medieval period, roughly between the 9th and 11th centuries CE, and it survives in several manuscripts.
The Bundahg offers a comprehensive account of creation, the structure of the cosmos, and the origin and
The work also provides geographic, zoological, and cosmological detail, outlining the heavens, earth, and underworld, as
Scholarly reception: the Bundahg is a foundational text for Zoroastrian cosmology and eschatology. It has been