Скачать или смотреть Martin Schwartz. On the Gathas of Zoroaster

(1) Introducing the Gathas: This lecture will be a general description of the Gathas-- their poetic style, their content, and their importance for not only post-Gathic Zoroastrianism, but for religions and philosophies of the world. Reasons will be provided for dismissing the views of some scholars that the Gathas are concerned with a primitive materialistic ritualism, and also that Zarathushtra was not a real historical personage who was the single author of th Gathas. Rather (as suppported by Lecture (2)),
it will be indicated that Zarathushtra was an absolutely awesome innovative spiritual leader, intellectual, and poet.

(2) Revealing the intricacies of the Gathas:
The lecturer will summarize and provide examples for several of his foremost discoveries as pertains to the striking intricacies of his compositional style: a) concentric schemes for each individual poem;
b) phonic encoding of the theology of the Gathas; c) the compositional mechanics whereby the individual poems were generated one after another; d) how Zarathushtra lampooned and lambasted the earlier hymn to Haoma.