The Ten Demonic Commandments

By these ten counsels, which are harmful to creatures, and which are in opposition to the ten counsels of Yima, which are beneficial to creatures, he ordered to keep the essential scripture of the Torah in Jerusalem. Afterwards, Abraham, the chief of the Jews, put it into action, Moses, who is the third after him, whom the Jews hold as a prophet…

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This passage from the Dēnkard suggests that the evil Dahāg preached ten “commandments” that paralleled the positive teachings of Yima, an early and important proponent of Zoroastrian tradition in Zoroastrian literature.

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