Zoroastrian theology treated hitting a child as damage to the cosmic order.

Evidence

The child’s body is, in Zoroastrian metaphysics, a vessel of aša — of cosmic truth and rightness. Damaging the child’s body is, in the Pahlavi religious frame, damage to the cosmic order itself. This is structurally similar to the Confucian lineage-frame of Episode 12 — but with cosmic, not lineage, stakes. The mechanism that constrained the rod in Sasanian elite households was partly a Zoroastrian theological mechanism. The child’s body belongs to aša, not to the parent. The parent who hits is transgressing against truth. — , The Rod and the Child, 1125

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the Confucian lineage-frame mechanism from Episode 12 — a cross-tradition structural comparison the book itself draws.

Related

• Confucian metaphysics made the child’s body sacred as lineage property (similarity 0.79)