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Zoroaster

Also known as Zarathushtra, Zartosht, Zardusht, Zarathustra, Zarathushtra Spitama, Zarathoustra, Zoroastre, Zurtasht

Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster or Zarathustra, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. In the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas, which he is traditionally believed to have authored, he is described as a preacher and a poet-prophet. Some have claimed, with much scholarly controversy, to find his influence in Heraclitus, Plato, Pythagoras, and, perhaps less controversially, in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, parti

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Zoroaster was a male human born in Ray in 628 BCE and died in Balkh in 551 BCE. He was a prophet, poet, writer, and thaumaturge who practiced vegetarianism. He is associated with the religion of Zoroastrianism and spoke Avestan. He is also known by the nicknames Bactrian Sage, le Sage de Bactriane, and El sabio bactriano.

His notable works include Zend Avesta: Volume I, ZARATHUSHTRA First Perfect Master/Poet after Adam of the Sufis SELECTED POEMS, The Gospel of Zarathustra, and Zarathushtra. He is described in sources such as the Literary Encyclopedia, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and the Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron.

A separate musical entity named Zoroaster is a male group from the United States. Their genres include doom metal, metal, psychedelic, sludge metal, and stoner metal. They are similar to artists such as Bison B.C., Eagle Twin, Kongh, Stonehelm, and Suma.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 2

Top works

רדוף־הזמן
Zend Avesta : Volume I
ZARATHUSHTRA First Perfect Master/Poet after Adam of the Sufis SELECTED POEMS
The Gospel of Zarathustra
Zarathushtra

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Gender: Male
Origin: United States

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Listeners: 33,814
Total plays: 493,954

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represents) the best truth.”
“Unto Thee, O Lord, the Soul of Creation cried:"For whom didst Thou create me, and who so fashioned me?Feuds and fury, violence and the insolence of might have oppressed me;None have I to protect me save Thee;Command for me then the blessings of a settled, peaceful life."”
“Thus to the Lord doth Asha, the Truth, reply:"No guide is known who can shelter the world from woe,None who knows what moves and works Thy lofty plans."”
“Hearken with your ears to these best counsels,Reflect upon them with illumined judgment.Let each one choose his creed with that freedom of choice each must have at great events.”
“In the beginning there were two primal spirits,Twins spontaneously active,These are the Good and the Evil, in thought, and in word, and in deed.”
“For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.”

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Key facts

Religious biography.honorific_prefix: Artu
Religious biography.name: Zarathushtra Spitama
Religious biography.image: File:Yazd, Templo del Fuego (2000) 03.jpg
Religious biography.background: 990955
Religious biography.caption: Modern depiction of Zoroaster featured at the Fire Temple of Yazd
Religious biography.birth_date: Unknown, traditionally
Religious biography.birth_place: Possibly Bactra, (Balkh, modern-day Afghanistan)
Religious biography.death_date: Unknown, traditionally (age 77)

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Works in European collections

10 objects attributed to Zoroaster, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Vendidad Sadé : traduit en langue Huzvaresch ou Pehlewie, 9

Vendidad Sadé : traduit en langue Huzvaresch ou Pehlewie, 1

Die Gatha's des Awesta : Zarathushtra's Verspredigten

Oracvla Magica Zoroastris Cvm Scholiis Plethonis et Pselli nunc primum editi. E Biblioteca Regia. Studio Iohannis Opsopoei

A hymn of Zoroaster. Yasna 31. transl. with comments by A. V. Williams Jackson

Oracula magica Zoroastris : cum scholiis Plethonis et Pselli nunc primum editi ; e bibliotheca regia

Vendidad Sade : die heiligen Schriften Zoroaster's Yaçna, Vispered und Vendidad ; nach den lithographirten Ausgaben von Paris und Bombay mit Index und Glossar

Avesta : die heiligen Bücher der Parsen, Prolegomena

Vendidad Sadé : traduit en langue Huzvaresch ou Pehlewie, 5

Clavis Artis Des berühmten Juden und Rabbi Zoroasters

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Name and etymology
Date
Classical scholarship
Zoroastrian and Muslim scholarship
Modern scholarship
Late date
Early date
Place
Life
Cypress of Kashmar
Influences
In Christianity and Judaism
In Islam
Muslim scholastic views
Ahmadiyya view
In Manichaeism
In the Bahá'í Faith
Philosophy
Iconography
Western references to Zoroaster and Zoroastrianism
In classical antiquity
In the modern era
Notable influence on modern Western culture
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links

He spoke an Old Iranian language, named Avestan by scholars after the corpus of Zoroastrian religious texts written in that language. Based on this, it is tentative to place his homeland somewhere in the eastern regions of the Greater Iran (possibly Bactra, now in modern-day Afghanistan). His life is traditionally dated to sometime around the 7th and 6th centuries BC; though most scholars, using linguistic and socio-cultural evidence, suggest a dating to somewhere in the 2nd millennium BC.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zoroaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.