fargards

Updated: May 21, 2025

Burned with the palace of Persepolis which Alexander, the Great Sinner, in a drunken orgy, destroyed only fragments of the fargards remain. These tell of creation, effected in six epochs, and of a pairi-daêza. Delitzsch voluminously asked: Wo lag das Paradies? There it is. There is the primal paradise.

Edgar Saltus - The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal

The parallel between this romance and subsequent poetry is curious. In Chaldea, before the fargards were, the story of Creation, of Eden, and of the fall had been told. In Egypt, before the Avesta was written, the resurrection and the life were known. Similar legends and prospects may or may not represent an autonomous development of Iranian thought.

Edgar Saltus - The Lords of the Ghostland: A History of the Ideal