xwedodah
Sign in to saveAlso known as khevtuk-das, Xᵛaētuuadaθa, xwēdōdah
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- Etymology
- Sanctification of Xwedodah
- Zoroastrian religious sources
- Avestan
- Pahlavi
- Non-Zoroastrian sources
- Greco-Roman
- Jewish
- Islamic
- Christian
- Greek
- Chinese
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|right|400px|Family tree of the mythical Mashya and Mashyana and their descendants.
Xwedodah ( ; Avestan: ) is a type of consanguine marriage historically practiced in Zoroastrianism before the Muslim conquest of Persia. Such marriages are recorded as having been inspired by Zoroastrian cosmogony and considered pious. It was a high act of worship in Zoroastrianism, and there were punishments for not performing it.
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