This article is about the doctrine of the formation of celestial bodies in Pahlavi texts. The doctrine is peculiar. It clashes not only with the accounts of the Gāϑā and the Younger Avesta but also with the general cosmology of Pahlavi literature. Nonetheless it must be authoritative since it is found in our main sources of Zoroastrian (Pahlavi) cosmogony and there does not seem to be an alternative account of the formation of celestial bodies. It thus prompts us to look for its background. This article presents and discusses the texts that contain the Pahlavi doctrine, examines its Avestan roots, and shows the influence of Presocratic cosmogonic speculations on the doctrine. Further, comparative material allows us to propose a conceptual genealogy of the basic constituents of the doctrine.

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巴列维文献中天体形成的琐罗亚斯德教教义

这篇文章是关于巴列维文献中天体形成的学说。教义很奇特。它不仅与 Gāϑā 和 Younger Avesta 的叙述相冲突，而且与巴列维文学的一般宇宙论相冲突。尽管如此，它必须是权威的，因为它可以在我们的琐罗亚斯德教（巴列维）宇宙起源的主要来源中找到，而且似乎没有关于天体形成的替代说明。因此，它促使我们寻找它的背景。本文介绍并讨论了包含巴列维学说的文本，考察了它的阿维斯坦根源，并展示了前苏格拉底宇宙起源推测对该学说的影响。此外，比较材料使我们能够提出该学说基本成分的概念谱系。