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Zoroastrianism A Brief Introduction

Also sprach Zarathustra “Thus spake Zoroaster” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w. Zoroastrianism A Brief Introduction. Youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83F4URTS9I. History.

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Zoroastrianism A Brief Introduction

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  1. Also sprach Zarathustra “Thus spake Zoroaster” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWnmCu3U09w Zoroastrianism A Brief Introduction

  2. Youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83F4URTS9I

  3. History • Zoroaster – date unknown. Zoroastrianism first mentioned by Herodotus. • Achaemenid Empire: various groups such as Medes, Persians, Magi and others, unified under Cyrus c. 550, Greeks conquered in 330 BCE.

  4. Alexander, Seleucids, Parthians. • Sassanians 228-634 CE—adopted Zoroastrianism, built fire temples, persecuted Christians and probably Jews. • By 6th century, probably had spread along Silk Road all the way to China. • Sassanians capitulated fairly rapidly to the Arab conquest.

  5. Legend has it that Imam Hussein (son of Ali and grandson of Muhammad) married a Zoroastrian—a Sassanid princess—Shahrbanu—the mother of Ali Zain al-Abidin, the 4th Imam. • Zoroastrians were persecuted and humiliated under Islam. Continued to write—in Pahlavi script. • Migration in Middle Ages to Gujarat in India “Parsis” • Today: Iranian and South Asian Zoroastrians

  6. Ahura Mazda – universal and transcendent God • Ahriman or Angra Mainyu – evil diety – will be vanquished at the end of time. • Good thoughts, good words, good deeds—(Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta) • these are needed to help Ahura Mazda overcome evil, and to keep evil and chaos from overtaking good and order.

  7. Some Beliefs • End of time: a savior figure, resurrection, return to life of souls of all the dead, ultimate vanquishing of evil. • Fire temples. Also have water and “Water of life” Nirang. http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/nirang33.html • Tower of Silence • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31_OUYD-v1A&feature=related

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