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Persian gods and Avestan gods

Pirart, Éric. 2015. Dieux perses et dieux avestiquesJournal Asiatique 303 (1), 47–58.

If we pick up the significant differences they show, the detailed examination of the Old Persian and Avestan theonyms enables us to say that the Zoroastrian Mazdeism of the ancient Persians did not fit into the same tradition as the Avesta.