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The Avestan Angra "messengers"
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    Posted: 06-Nov-2013 at 11:32
According to Haug the Old Avestan angra means "messengers".  Angra does appear to be related to OPer. angaros, and the Vedic angiras cult of fire.  Were the angiras more closely connected to the settled Ahurians than the Brahmanical castes?   
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He exhorts his party to respect and revere the Angra –Yasna 43.15 trans. Martin Haug   
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It might be of interest to others if they knew that Avesta is the language used in the ancient texts of Zoroster.  That's about all I know.
 
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In Balkan areas,angro means wholesale price also:
I do not know nothing about Avestan messenger mojobadshah.Elighten me!
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The theory goes something like this: Before Zoroaster the settled Ahurians "lords" subscribed to "laws against the Daevas."  Given other forms of Ahuramazda such as Asuramasash in Assyrian Mazda worship was probably even introduced before Zarathushtra, but it was definitely by Zarathushtra's time that Mazda worship had been introduced.  The Ahurians are Martin Haugs Angra "messengers" proto-Zoroastrians who according to Haug, Zarathushtra exhorts his followers to revere.  Haug's Angra are identical with the Vedic Angira which apparently was a fire cult.  My question is really more abou the Angira.  Was there anything more Zoroastrian about the Angira of the Vedas than the Brahmans?
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