1983
DOI: 10.1017/s0010417500010331
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“The Earth Becomes Flat”—A Study of Apocalyptic Imagery

Abstract: The thirty–fourth chapter of the Greater Bundahišn, which is the fullest eschatological account within this important Middle Persian text, ends on an extremely peculiar note. Its final verse states:This also is said [in the Avesta]: “The earth becomes flat, without a crown and without a seat. There are no mountain peaks nor hollows, nor are ‘up’ and ‘down’ preserved.”

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“…In earlier studies, I have tried to show how religious structuresmyths, sacred symbols, rituals, categories of leadership, views of history, and the like-are regularly appropriated, not just by one party within a revolutionary struggle, but by all parties, each one choosing and adapting those structures which are most useful to it in its struggle with its adversaries. 48 Even when participants in a revolutionary struggle claim that their positions and motivations are entirely secular, rational, or even antireligious-as was true for the parties of the left in the Spanish civil war, most of all for the Anarchists-powerful mythic, ritual, and soteriological dimensions may still be recognized in their rhetoric, ideology, and actions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In earlier studies, I have tried to show how religious structuresmyths, sacred symbols, rituals, categories of leadership, views of history, and the like-are regularly appropriated, not just by one party within a revolutionary struggle, but by all parties, each one choosing and adapting those structures which are most useful to it in its struggle with its adversaries. 48 Even when participants in a revolutionary struggle claim that their positions and motivations are entirely secular, rational, or even antireligious-as was true for the parties of the left in the Spanish civil war, most of all for the Anarchists-powerful mythic, ritual, and soteriological dimensions may still be recognized in their rhetoric, ideology, and actions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Above all, the self-perception of the intellectuals (as 19th century social products- Ory and Sirinelle, 1987), as the only social group capable of leading the successful revolution toward social justice (seen as an equality of individuals- Lincoln, 1983), paradoxically reserves for the nation-state the leading role during the post-revolutionary transition. In the 1970s there was more talk about the capability of the lineage and tributary modes of production in sustaining a state, about the state as a central element in unequal relations inside the capitalist world system and about the revolutionary peasants' state than about the dissolution of the state.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Για τις περσικές επιρροές του Πλούταρχου σε ό, τι αφορά το μοτίβο της κάθαρσης μέσω μετάλλων, βλ Lincoln 1983,. 137-138.…”
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