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The 14 pages that link to Avesta, each with the reason it gives.

• ZoroastrianismBroader topic: Its hymns and prayers preserve the tradition’s foundational teachings.

• VedasCompared with: It offers a close historical comparison through shared Indo-Iranian religious and linguistic inheritances.

• Indo-Iranian languagesBroader topic: Its oldest language provides early evidence for the Iranian branch.

• Ahura MazdaNarrower topic: Its prayers and teachings preserve the principal textual traditions about Ahura Mazda.

• Alborz MountainsRelated: Its references to a cosmic mountain underpin the mythic ancestry of the Alborz name.

• AshaRelated: The Avesta preserves Asha's religious and liturgical contexts.

• AvestanRelated: It is the principal body of literature in which Avestan is preserved.

• GathasNarrower topic: The Gathas form its oldest and most revered textual layer.

• Angra MainyuNarrower topic: Its oldest hymns contain the earliest surviving references to the spirit.

• FrashokeretiRelated: Avestan passages provide early foundations for ideas of final renewal.

• ZoroasterRelated: Its oldest hymns, the Gathas, are traditionally attributed to Zoroaster.

• MithraRelated: Its hymns and liturgies preserve key evidence about Mithra.

• Persian mythologyRelated: Its hymns and ritual texts preserve early Iranian divine names and cosmological ideas.

• MazdaismBroader topic: Its texts preserve the prayers and teachings through which Mazdaism is known.