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The post-Sasanian Zoroastrian Middle Persian commentaries are primarily Mazdean and with only one exception (the 10th century Denkard 9.30 [6]) do not mention Zurvan at all. Of the remaining so-called Pahlavi books , only two, the Mēnōg-i Khrad and the Selections of Zādspram (both 9th century ) reveal a Zurvanite tendency.
[14] [67] [70] They were not allowed to wear overcoats but were compelled to wear long robes called qaba and cotton geeveh on their feet even in winter. [58] Wearing eyeglasses, [ 66 ] long cloak, trousers, hat, boots, [ 58 ] socks, winding their turbans tightly and neatly, [ 73 ] carrying watches or rings, [ 74 ] were all forbidden to ...
The name Zoroaster (Ζωροάστηρ) is a Greek rendering of the Avestan name Zarathustra.He is known as Zartosht and Zardosht in Persian and Zaratosht in Gujarati. [14] The Zoroastrian name of the religion is Mazdayasna, which combines Mazda-with the Avestan word yasna, meaning "worship, devotion". [15]
WikiProject Zoroastrianism is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Zoroastrianism.It aims primarily to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referencing between pages dealing with Zoroastrianism and its history, texts, terms, philosophies, and related subjects such as Persian mythology.
The game also features puzzles involving other Noh masks. In 2011 the game Team Fortress 2 in collaboration with Total War: Shogun 2 featured a cosmetic item called Noh Mercy. In the 2013 video game Tomb Raider there are three masks that can be found but one of them is called Hannya Mask which is founded during Lara Croft's adventures in the ...
Druj, meaning “demoness,” [2] is commonly used as a prefix for Nasu and other female daevas. Druj is a feminine Avestan language word meaning “falsehood,” the opposition of asha, or “truth.” [3] Druj is the root for the adjective drəguuaṇt, meaning “owner of falsehood,” which “[designates] all beings who choose druj over asha."
Zoroastrian Empire may refer to empires with Zoroastrianism as the state religion: Achaemenid Empire , an empire based in Western Asia in Iran, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great Parthian Empire , a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran, founded in 247 BCE and dissolved in 224 CE
Vanant [pronunciation?] is the Avestan language name of a minor Zoroastrian divinity. The name literally means "conqueror", but in Zoroastrian tradition Vanant is the hypostasis of the "star of the west", variously identified with Altair, Fomalhaut, Vega, Sargas or Kappa Scorpii/Girtab.