My background is in 20th-century art history, linguistics, and digital storytelling. Comments on this post are now closed. Please e-mail web getty. At the very root of monotheism lies this great, and largely unknown, religion seeking attention. Thank you for answering the call. A very interesting piece and I suppose; technically true.
Yet horned deities and birth goddesses were depicted on cave walls. It was arguably , the first monotheistic religion. As one that survives to date it deserves study. Yet Paganism, once again is left out of the religious scope as the most ancient. The early Hebrews and early Christians were not even truly monotheistic until much later. Yahweh had a wife. Who was held to be the keeper of all knowledge and his consort.
An equal. Even if not acknowledged. Wich by the way, Zoroaster did seem to manage to get rid of entirely. I do not consider myself a feminist. I am a humanist. This was written in the interest of discussion not discord!
I suspect that even this religion is predated by numerous other religions which are long gone and forgotten due to many reasons lack of writing skills, lack of proper things to write on, destroyed in wars, buried by the earth, destroyed by fires, destroyed by natural disasters, destroyed by later religions, etc etc. What that original religion was, where it originated, why it originated, who originated it, etc is all lost to time. Dr Curtis is correct. This exhibit is possibly one of the most important relics from the foundations of western civilisation.
Zoroastrians were held quite wrongly to worship fire because they kept a permanent flame in their temples. Some even questioned whether they were monotheists at all because Ahriman was referred to as an evil "god".
But all the Abrahamic religions have also struggled to explain "evil" in the world which is why they gave Satan an important role. The first encounter between the ancient peoples who developed historical Judaism and the Persian religious ideas of Zoroastrianism seems to have come either during or shortly after the captivity in Babylon. It was the Persian king of kings, Cyrus, who liberated the Hebrews from Babylon and one of his successors, Darius, who organised and funded the return of some of the captives probably along with many Persians to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah and Ezra also reorganised the traditional religion of the Judaeans and Israelites. What emerged was a stricter monotheistic version which was consistent with basic beliefs of the Persian imperial religion — Zoroastrianism.
Those who might doubt how Persian imperial policy so decisively shaped what we know as Judaism should reflect on the remarkable and first ever declaration of belief in one, universal God by the biblical writer known as " Second Isaiah " during this period. Interestingly there is evidence that the Persian imperial policy towards the religion of their subject peoples — to allow the traditional name of their gods to be retained but to revise the religions themselves in the image of Zoroastrianism — was also applied in Babylon and Egypt as well as Palestine.
Peschl says that Zoroastrianism reached the peak of its power and political influence during the Sasanian Dynasty C. Those who didn't convert faced terrible persecution in Iran, says Eduljee, which is why many Zoroastrians chose to migrate to India starting over 1, years ago. In India, Zoroastrians became known as Parsees, a word derived from the same root as Persians.
Eduljee himself was born in India to a Parsee father and a mother whose great-grandparents migrated from Iran to India more recently. The Parsee community in India still boasts the largest concentration of Zoroastrians in the world.
An estimated 60, to 70, Parsees live in India , mostly in upper-class enclaves around Mumbai, although their numbers are shrinking. Traditionally, Zoroastrians have not converted people to their faith. However, recently, they have begun to accept those who choose to become Zoroastrians through their own choice. Low birth rates are, however, taking a toll.
Eduljee, whose Vancouver Zoroastrian community is about 1, people strong, admits that he's "very concerned" about the future of Zoroastrianism, although he believes "we might just survive. The Japanese automaker Mazda chose its name in part as a reference to Ahura Mazda, God in Zoroastrianism, and also the name of the company's second president, Jujiro Matsuda. Sign up for our Newsletter!
Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots. Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. Western Spirituality. With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself. Iraqi Kurdish woman Faiza Fouad, who embraced Zoroastrianism, takes part in a ceremony in an ancient, ruined temple of the Zoroastrian religion. Years of violence by the Islamic State jihadist group have left many disillusioned with Islam, while a long history of state oppression has pushed some in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to see the millennia-old religion as a way of reasserting their identity.
Syrian Kurdish women dance together traditional "dabke" dances in a meadow as they celebrate the spring holiday of Nowruz. The Persian New Year is an ancient Zoroastrian tradition celebrated by Iranians and Kurds that coincides with the vernal spring equinox. A woman dressed in white walks through a village at the foot of a hill with a Tower of Silence near Yazd, Iran on Sept. Now That's Cool.
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