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The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. The texts of the Avesta were collated over several hundred years. The most important portion, the Gathas, in Gathic Avestan, are the hymns thought to have been composed by Zarathushtra himself, and date linguistically to around 1000 BCE. Although some of the texts are very old, the term Avesta itself only dates to the second century CE.