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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. [ f ] Variously described as a sage or a wonderworker; in the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas ...
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]
R. C. Zaehner (1972) [1][2] Robert Charles Zaehner (1913–24 November 1974) was a British academic whose field of study was Eastern religions. He understood the original language of many sacred texts, e.g., Hindu (Sanskrit), Buddhist (Pali), Islamic (Arabic). At Oxford University his first writings were on the Zoroastrian religion and its texts.
The Dēnkard or Dēnkart (Middle Persian: 𐭣𐭩𐭭𐭪𐭠𐭫𐭲 "Acts of Religion") is a 10th-century compendium of Zoroastrian beliefs and customs during the time. The Denkard is to a great extent considered an "Encyclopedia of Mazdaism" [1] and is a valuable source of Zoroastrian literature especially during its Middle Persian iteration.
e. Zoroastrianism is considered to be the oldest religion still practiced in Iran. It is an Iranian religion that emerged around the 2nd millennium BCE, spreading through the Iranian plateau and eventually gaining official status under the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BCE. It remained the Iranian state religion until the 7th century CE ...
Zoroastrianism is a religion which has been practiced in the West Asian country of Armenia since the fifth century BC. It first reached the country during the Achaemenid and Parthian periods, when it spread to the Armenian Highlands. Prior to the Christianization of Armenia, it was a predominantly Zoroastrian land. [1]
v. t. e. The Gathas (/ ˈɡɑːtəz, - tɑːz /) [1] are 17 Avestan hymns traditionally believed to have been composed by the prophet Zarathushtra (Zoroaster). They form the core of the Zoroastrian liturgy (the Yasna). They are arranged in five different modes or metres. The Avestan term gāθā (𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁 "hymn", but also "mode, metre ...
Zoroastrian cosmology. Religion portal. v. t. e. The Avesta (/ əˈvɛstə /) is the primary collection of religious literature of Zoroastrianism from at least the late Sassanid period (ca. 6th century CE). [ 1 ] It is composed in the Avestan language, [ 2 ] with the oldest surviving fragment of a text in the Avestan language dating to 1323 CE.