“Multi-functional” Paternitas and Millenarianism in Wištāsp Yašt 1,3–5

The article stuides a peculiar passage contained into the Avestan Wištāsp Yašt. From this text, we can infer that an ancient liturgy gave a prominent role to a person acting in the ceremony as Vīštāspa, and probably assuming the function of sacrificial patron of the ceremony. This priest was promised as a reward for his ritual performance the prize of ten sons belonging to the three different strata of the society plus one, the tenth, who should assume a sort of eschatological and teleological function.The last son in fact plays a foundational action connected with millennial expectations.