The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“First the sky was fashioned, hard and bright, enclosing the world like a shell around a life not yet awakened. It did not boast of height; its holiness was the space it made for everything below.”
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Sacred traditionTraditional religious material; historical dating and narrative form remain distinct.
The Bundahišn gives a sequence of sky, water, earth, plant, the uniquely created bull, Gayōmard, and fire, with fire understood as permeating the other creations. Comparable creation lists have older Avestan parallels.
The voices attributed to the creations are literary personification. The sequence and major images are adapted from Zoroastrian cosmogonic tradition.