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The New Persian word فروهر is read as foruhar or faravahar (pronounced as furōhar or furūhar in Classical Persian).The Middle Persian forms were frawahr (Book Pahlavi: plwʾhl, Manichaean: prwhr), frōhar (recorded in Pazend as 𐬟𐬭𐬋𐬵𐬀𐬭; it is a later form of the previous form), and fraward (Book Pahlavi: plwlt', Manichaean: frwrd), which was directly from Old Persian ...
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The Zohar also seems to have a similar view. (Zohar 1, 99a & b) Zoroastrianism also has this idea. The Chinvat bridge, which occurs in the Gathas of Zarathushtra, has many similarities and is a close concept to As-Sirat. S. G. F. Brandon quotes the Dāstan-i Mēnōk-i Krat
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]
Some scientific sources indicate that the Maiden Tower is a paramount example of Zoroastrianism and the pre-Islamic architecture in Iran and Azerbaijan. [6] [7] Davud A. Akhundov provides archeological and architectural evidence and argues that the Tower is Zoroastrians' Fire temple-Tower which had 7 fire exits on the top of the tower. [8]
Zarathushtra Spitama, [c] more commonly known as Zoroaster [d] or Zarathustra, [e] was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism.
Aži Dahāka appears in several of the Avestan myths and is mentioned parenthetically in many more places in Zoroastrian literature. [citation needed] In a post-Avestan Zoroastrian text, the Dēnkard, Aži Dahāka is possessed of all possible sins and evil counsels, the opposite of the good king Jam (or Jamshid).