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Peshotanu logo #10101) Zoroastrian eschatology
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Peshotanu

Peshotanu logo #21000 Peshotanu (Avestan Pəšōtanū, Middle Persian Peshyotan, Peshotan) is an eschatological figure of the 9th–12th-century texts of Zoroastrian tradition, one of the Zoroastrian immortals and an assistant of the Saoshyant, the `future benefactor` who brings about the final renovation of the world. In the genealogy of the mythical Kayanians, Pesh.....
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Peshotanu

Peshotanu logo #21000[punishment] A Peshotanu, meaning one who pays with his body, according to Avestan terminology, is a person who had either been condemned to or previously subjected to two hundred stripes with the Aspahe-astra and the Sraosho-karana. Two hundred flogs with a whip was a capital punishment in Ancient Persia next only to death. A Peshotanu was...
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