Resources

• An Introduction to the Gathas of Zarathushtra: Good and Evil
• Zoroastrians: Followers of a Faith that is Relevant to the Modern World
• Women in the Old Avesta: Social Position and Textual Composition
• An Archaeologist’s Approach to Avestan Geography
• The Nature of the Divine
• Truth, Asha
• Good Thinking, Vohu Manah
• LGBTQ+ and Zarathushtra’s Teachings
• Collection of articles By Dr. Ali A. Jafarey
• Zarathushtra’s Genetic System, Stanley Insler
• Have We Remained True to the Teachings of Zarathushtra
• Religion and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran
• Domains of Belief Transcript (see videos section)
• Meetings with Magi: Iranian Themes among the Greeks

• Salient Points
• The Message of Zarathushtra
• Divine Emanations, the Primal Principles of Life
• The Universal Religion of Zarathushtra
• God in the Gathas
• Zarathushtra, Life and Teachings
• Spenta Mainyu, and Good and Evil in the Gathas
• Avesta: an Introduction
• The Initiation Ceremony
• The Gathas Forever
• Death in the Gathas
• Rituals in the Gathas
• Freedom of Choice, Meaning and Message of Yasna 30.2
• A Thought a Day to Practice, Pray, and Say (Gatha Translation)
• Women in the Gathas and the Later Avesta
• Zoroastrian Religion and Democracy
• The Precise Iranian Calendar, made simple
• Nowruz, the Zarathushtrian New Year
• Iranian and Parsi Priests
• Zoroastrian Priest in the Avesta
• The Priest
• Ratu
• Iranians and Turanians in the Avesta
• The Gathas and Translation, Explanation, Interpretation, and Imagination
• The Good Religion and Institutionalized Zoroastrianism

• The Gathas, Our Guide (Dr. Ali A. Jafarey)
• Understanding the Gathas (Dinshaw J. Irani/edited by Prof. K.D. Irani)
• The Gathas: The Hymns of Zarathushtra (Dinshaw J. Irani)
• The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra (Irach J.S. Taraporewala)
• The Gathas of Zarathustra (Stanley Insler)
• Translation of Gathas: The Holy Songs of Zarathushtra (Mobed Firouz Azargoshasb)
• Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran (A.V. William Jackson)
• Asura in the Early Vedic Religion
• The Origin of the Indo-Iranians
• Aramaic Ritual Texts from Persepolis

Gatha Recitations

• Quick Definitions
  
• Avestan—Part 1: Historical, geographical, and cultural background
  
• Avestan—Part 2: Avestan texts and ritual practice
  
• Avestan—Part 3: Avestan script and sound
  
• Avestan—Part 4: Avestan manuscripts
  
• Dictionary of Most Common Avesta Words
  
• FEZANA School Lesson Plan—What Are the Gathas (grades 9-12)
  
• FEZANA School Lesson Plan—Prime Principles of Life (grades 9-12)
  
• Old Iranian Online (University of Texas at Austin)
  
• Avesta: A Beginner’s Guide to the Script, Grammar, and Language
  
• A Grammar of Gathic Avestan
  
• An English-Avesta Dictionary
  
• An Avesta Grammar in Comparison with Sanskrit

• The Gathas, Our Guide (Dr. Ali A. Jafarey)
• Understanding the Gathas (Dinshaw J. Irani/edited by Prof. K.D. Irani)
• The Gathas: The Hymns of Zarathushtra (Dinshaw J. Irani)
• The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra (Irach J.S. Taraporewala)
• The Gathas of Zarathustra (Stanley Insler)
• Translation of Gathas: The Holy Songs of Zarathushtra (Mobed Firouz Azargoshasb)
• The Gāthās of Zarathushtra and the Other Old Avestan Texts (1991: Humbach, Elfenbein, Skjærvø)
• Zarathushtra and His Antagonists (Humbach, Gatha translation)
• The RigVeda The Earliest Religious Poetry of India
• Šahrestānīhā ī Ērānšahr (The Provincial Capitals of Iran)
• Aerpatistan and Nirangistan
• The “Zend” Avesta, Sacred Books of the East, James Darmesteter
• Avesta the Sacred Book of the Parsis, Karl F. Geldner
• An Old Zand-Pahlavi Glossary (Frahang i oim)
• A study of the Five Zarathushtrian Gathas with texts and translations
• Frahang i Pahlavik
• Dēnkard Book 6 The Wisdom of the Sasanian Sages
• Pahlavi Vendidad
• Persepolis Fortification Tablets
• Pazand Texts
• šak-ud-gumānīh-vizār
• Mādayān ī Hazār Dādestān (Book of a Thousand Judgments)
• The Sudgar Nask of Denkard Book 9
• Bundahishn Pahlavi text

• Achaemenid Echoes in the Wall Paintings of Akchakhan-Kala, Chorasmia, and their Broader Significance for Central Asia
• Sine Sepulchro cultural complex of Transoxiana (between 1500 and the middle of the 1st Millennium BCE)
• Ancient Chorasmian Mural Art
• An Iron Age Urban Settlement Revealed by Magnetic Survey: The Case of Ulug Depe (Turkmenistan)
• Iron Age in Turkmenistan: Ulug depe in the Kopetdagh piedmont
• The Yaz II and III period pottery. Classification and chronology viewed from Bandykhan, Southern Uzbekistan. 
• Bronze Age and Early Iron Age People of Eastern Central Asia Volume I
• Bronze Age and Early Iron Age People of Eastern Central Asia Volume II
• Central Asia during the Achaemenid Period
• Decorative motifs of the Early Iron Age (Yaz I) pottery in Southern Turkmenistan
• Early Urban Developments in Central Asia
• Evaluation of components and distribution of Yaz-I-III culture in Khorasan cultural field
• New archeoastronomical investigation of the complex Koy-Krylgan-Kala
• Linking agriculture and exchange to social developments of the Central Asian Iron Age
• Step over the Gap, not in it: A Case Study of Iranian Sistan Archaeology
• The Middle Iron Age in Ulug-depe: A preliminary typo-chronological and technological study of the Yaz II ceramic complex
• The Yaz I-III Settlement Pattern in the Serakhs Oasis, Southern Turkmenistan

• Altiranisches Wörterbuch (Old Iranian Dictionary)
• A Grammar of Gathic Avestan
• Altiranisches Sprachgut
• Avestiche Laut- und Flexionslehre
• Index Verborum of the Fragments of the Avesta
• Handbuch der Zendsprache
• Note on Avestan Ahū
• Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen Vol I
• Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen Vol II
• Old Avestan Primer
• Young Avestan Primer
• W.B. Henning selected papers II
• The Avestan Language and Its Cognates
• Traces of Textual Fluidity in the Zand: Extracts from the Pahlavi Yasna in the Old Pahlavi Codex K20
• Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb

• Dina G. McIntyre Gathas of Zarathushtra
  
• English Zoroastrian
  

• Volume I, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part I
• Volume II, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 2
• Volume III, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 3
• Volume IV, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 4
• Volume V, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 5
• Volume VI, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 6
• Volume VII, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 7
• Volume VIII, Book III Collation of Doctrine, part 8
• Volume IX, Book III part 9, Book IV on the Parthian and Sassanid Periods, Book V part 1
• Volume X, Book V Writings of Adar Frobag, part 2, Book VI part 1
• Volume XI, Book VI Wisdom of the Ancient Sages part 2
• Volume XII, Book VI Wisdom of the Ancient Sages part 3
• Volume XIII, Book VII Zarathushtra-Nâmag, part I
• Volume XIV, Book VII Zarathushtra-Nâmag, part II
• Volume XV, Book VIII contents of the Avesta Nasks, part II
• Volume XVI, Book VIII contents of the Avesta Nasks, part II
• Volume XVII, Book IX contents of the Gâthic Nasks, part I
• Volume XVIII, Book IX contents of the Gâthic Nasks, part II
• Volume XIX, Book IX contents of the Gâthic Nasks, part III

• Volume I The Land of Iran
• Volume II The Median and Achaemenian Periods
• Volume III (1) The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid Periods
• Volume III (2) The Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid Periods
• Volume IV The Period from the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs
• Volume V The Saljuq and Mongol Periods
• Volume VI The Timurid and Safavid Periods
• Volume VII From Nadir Shah to the Islamic Republic