The One and the Many in Iranian Creation Myths: Rethinking 'Nostalgia for Paradise'.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the myths of creation, wherein cosmogonies play a significant role in societies and religious systems and the nostalgia for paradise remains the recurrent theme. The author discusses the cosmogonies of ancient Iran, wherein he cites the inscriptions made by Darius the Great regarding creation. He states that the Zoroastrian literature has several creation accounts, in which Zoroastrian scriptures make the Wise Lord responsible for the acts of creation. He also notes that the Zoroastrian cosmogonies are from eastern Iran and the Achaemenian variants are from the southwest Iran.