How are you defining hell? Various Mediterranean religions had similar things much earlier? http://www.hell-on-line.org/TextsEGY.html
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Avestas have a reference or two, the vedas have a reference or two, but they are not developed into a Salvic Model
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(from an old draft blog post, titled “Selling Salvation,” that has not yet surfaced:)pic.twitter.com/4drPHGYL2n
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Replying to @Meaningness
I am definitely struck by the parallels of Buddhism and Christianity in their Afterlife and Divine Punishment mythologies
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Because both are influenced by Zoroastrianism!
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Hell is not really worked out in the Avestan stuff
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sárvān kā́mān yamarā́jye vaśā́ pradadúṣe duhe | áthāhur nā́rakaṃ lokáṃ nirundhānásya yācitā́m ||36|| AV 12,4.36
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Jesus, I can read enough Avestan to get the gist (having read exactly zero about it). That’s spooky.
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Oh, wait, that’s the Atharvaveda? OK, less spooky that I can read enough Skt to get gist, although I’ve not studied
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I knew Avestan was cognate, but I didn’t think it was THAT close!
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Replying to @Meaningness
AV not Av. :-) But Old Iranian and Old Indic *are* pretty close.
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