12-12-2006, 01:33 PM
Greetings,
this may help a little, although it's from a later period...I think I read somewhere that this sort of marriage was practised amongst the earlier Persians too..
from:
[url:3q3mx11a]http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Law/family_law.htm[/url] (see for full text)
In fact, the most meritorious type of marriage, regarded as a panacea for all deadly sins except sodomy (Rivâyat î Êmêd, chap. 29), was what modern Parsis call "next of kin" union (xwêdôdah, Av. xvaêtvadaƒa-; AirWb., col. 1860; Nyberg, Manual II, p. 224), described in the Dênkard (ed. Madan, I, p. 73) as "union of father and daughter, son and mother, brother and sister" (hampaywandîh î hast pid ud duxt, ud pus ud burdâr, ud brâd ud xwah). Already in the Yasna (12.9) the righteous xvaêtvadaƒa- was praised. Consanguineous marriage, originally practiced by the nobility among many peoples, was later commonly contracted in all sections of the Iranian community, high and low. Many Persian monarchs married their sisters or daughters (Boyce, Zoroastrianism I, p. 254 n. 24, II, pp. 75-77; idem, 1979, s.v. khvâetvadatha), and the Magians were reported by Xanthus of Lydia to have cohabited with their mothers and daughters (Jackson, pp. 152-57). In the Sasanian period the priest Ardâ Wîrâz (q.v.) took all his seven sisters to wife (Ardâ Wîrâz Nâmag, chap. 2). Next-of-kin marriage among the common people is dealt with in most Middle Persian lawbooks, especially the Rivâyat î Êmêd (chaps. 22, 24, 27-30; cf. de Menasce, 1985, pp. 138-44; Shaki, 1971, pp. 335-36; Nyberg, Manual II, p. 224).
regards
Arthes
this may help a little, although it's from a later period...I think I read somewhere that this sort of marriage was practised amongst the earlier Persians too..
from:
[url:3q3mx11a]http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Law/family_law.htm[/url] (see for full text)
In fact, the most meritorious type of marriage, regarded as a panacea for all deadly sins except sodomy (Rivâyat î Êmêd, chap. 29), was what modern Parsis call "next of kin" union (xwêdôdah, Av. xvaêtvadaƒa-; AirWb., col. 1860; Nyberg, Manual II, p. 224), described in the Dênkard (ed. Madan, I, p. 73) as "union of father and daughter, son and mother, brother and sister" (hampaywandîh î hast pid ud duxt, ud pus ud burdâr, ud brâd ud xwah). Already in the Yasna (12.9) the righteous xvaêtvadaƒa- was praised. Consanguineous marriage, originally practiced by the nobility among many peoples, was later commonly contracted in all sections of the Iranian community, high and low. Many Persian monarchs married their sisters or daughters (Boyce, Zoroastrianism I, p. 254 n. 24, II, pp. 75-77; idem, 1979, s.v. khvâetvadatha), and the Magians were reported by Xanthus of Lydia to have cohabited with their mothers and daughters (Jackson, pp. 152-57). In the Sasanian period the priest Ardâ Wîrâz (q.v.) took all his seven sisters to wife (Ardâ Wîrâz Nâmag, chap. 2). Next-of-kin marriage among the common people is dealt with in most Middle Persian lawbooks, especially the Rivâyat î Êmêd (chaps. 22, 24, 27-30; cf. de Menasce, 1985, pp. 138-44; Shaki, 1971, pp. 335-36; Nyberg, Manual II, p. 224).
regards
Arthes
Cristina
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