2.1 Variant on Darius’s cosmogonic account from Susa and its relation to the way the palace at Susa was theorized 22
2.2 Order in which the Wise Lord established his primordial creations, according to Achaemenid and Zoroastrian cosmogonic accounts 24
2.3 Iranian cosmogonies, their structure and implications 32
3.1 Analysis of infantile vulnerability to demonic threats, as worked out in Dēnkard 3.374 49
5.1 Eras of cosmic history, as implied in the myth of Yima’s rejection of the religion (Vidaēuudāt 2.1–5) 83
7.1 Achaemenian and Zoroastrian variants of the cosmogonic narrative 121
7.2 Details in Ctesias’s description of “the troughs” and Iranian comparanda 129
9.1 Classification of the Four Humors based upon their “nature” (gōhr) 166
9.2 Properties of the Four Humors 167
9.3 Correlations between the four humors and the four social classes 171
10.1 The role of gender in conception according to Indian Bundahišn 16.1–3 176
10.2 Classification of the two gendered seeds according to the presence or absence of moisture and warmth according to Indian Bundahišn 16.4 177
10.3 Interaction of the two seeds in conception according to Indian Bundahišn 16.4 178
10.4 Interlocking representations of gender hierarchy in Indian Bundahišn 16.1–6 183
13.1 Correlated binary oppositions in Yašt 13.57–58 212
13.2 Correlated binary oppositions in Yašt 8.8 213
13.3 The Evil Spirit’s assault on the stars 218
13.4 Parallel analyses of time and space in Avestan and Pahlavi sources 220
14.1 Homology of Judgment of the Dead and Digestion, following Greater Bundahišn 28.10 231
14.2 Homologic relations implied by Farbag-Srōš’s opinion on whether Zoroastrians can buy prepared foods from their non-Zoroastrian neighbors (Rivāyat of Farnbag-Srōš 25) 236
15.1 Details in seven variants of the myth contributing to the reconstruction of a Proto-Indo-European original 259
15.2 Modification of mythic characters and themes in the different versions 260
20.1 Summary of Chiromecta’s content, as recorded by Pliny, Natural History 24.160–66 335