Bundahishan

The 'Bundahishan' is a Middle Persian Zoroastrian text compiled in the early medieval period that preserves much older mythological and theological material.

It contains cosmologies, cosmogonies, and accounts of creation, including the emergence of the first humans from a plant-like stalk (Masya and Masyana).

The work is central to Zoroastrian scholarly and religious traditions and is often used to reconstruct pre-Islamic Iranian beliefs.

Its content reflects doctrinal themes such as the role of Ahura Mazda and the ordering of the world, and it has been edited and translated by scholars of Iranian religion.

The Bundahishan remains a primary source for the study of Zoroastrian myth and early Iranian cosmology.