The Maiden at the Threshold: How the Quranic Houris Carry the Image of the Zoroastrian Daēnā Without Its Meaning
The Beautiful Maiden of Paradise as the Inherited Form of the Personified Conscience That the Soul Meets at the Chinvat Bridge eFireTemple "And [for the righteous] there are ḥūr ʻīn — pure companions with eyes like preserved pearls, as a reward for what they used to do." — Quran 56:22–23 "After the third night, when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the righteous as if it were brought amongst plants and…
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The Beautiful Maiden of Paradise as the Inherited Form of the Personified Conscience That the Soul Meets at the Chinvat Bridge eFireTemple "And [for the righteous] there are ḥūr ʻīn — pure companions with eyes like preserved pearls, as a reward for what they used to do." — Quran 56:22–23 "After the third night, when the dawn appears, it seems to the soul of the righteous as if it were brought amongst plants and scents… and there comes to him his own daēnā , in the form of a beautiful maiden, brilliant, white-armed, strong, well-grown, tall, of high-standing breasts, of beautiful body, noble, of glorious lineage, of the age of fifteen years, as fair in her body as the fairest of created beings.
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