The Bundahishn, the ancient Zoroastrian 'Book of Primal Creation,' offers one of the world's most dramatic and hopeful visions of why our world exists. In clear, inviting modern English, this faithful new edition opens with the two eternal spirits — Ohrmazd, the Wise Lord of light, and Ahriman, the destructive one of darkness — and follows the making of the sky, the waters, the earth, the plant, the animal and the human across six great acts of creation. Here you will meet the first man Gayomard, the sacred mountain Alburz and the seven regions of the earth; travel with the soul across the Chinvat Bridge after death; and watch the unfolding drama of history toward the three saviors, the resurrection of all bodies and the final 'making wonderful' of all things. Timeless, mythic and strangely comforting, the Bundahishn is for seekers, students of religion and anyone curious about the deepest roots of our ideas of good and evil. Part of The World Scriptures Library.