Zoroastrianism
In Our Time: Religion
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What Is the Flow of Oi?
i read that the idea of the spoke, that the spoken word was superior to the written word because it was less likely to be corrupted. Can you just develop that a little well, it's not possible to develop that, except to ask why they consider it necessary to commit the garters and as now the rest of the amest to writing. And of course, the answer must be that they were losing touch with the original language and they had to fix it. This is conjectured. Perhaps the religion came from the east, the pronunciation of the original gothic words was rather different to the south west, where it emigrated o the state religion. And so before they lost touch
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