Zoroastrianism was the most influential religion in the Middle East before the birth of Christianity. It was the state religion of the ancient Persian Empire and the religion in Central Asia and other places.
It is the source of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. It is called Zoroastrianism in China. Zoroastrian was the founder of the religion. He came from a noble knight family in the Kingdom of Medes. He abandoned his family and lived in seclusion at the age of 20. At the age of 30, he was inspired by God. He reformed the traditional polytheism and founded the Zoroastrianism, but was persecuted by the traditional priests. It was not until the age of 42 that the prime minister of Daxia married his daughter as his wife and introduced him to the king. After that, Zoroastrianism spread rapidly in Daxia.
At the age of seventy-seven, he was killed in a temple in a war.
There is another saying that Zoroastrian lived earlier, and Zoroastrianism was not his first creation, he was just a master.
The religion believes that Ahura Mazda (meaning the Lord of Wisdom is the Supreme Lord God, the omniscient and omnipotent Creator of the Universe. It has virtues such as light, life, creation, and is also the embodiment of heaven, order and truth. Mazda created the material world and also created fire, that is, infinite light, so Zoroastrianism regards worship as their divine duty.
The emergence of Zoroastrianism had a profound influence on the later Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The prophet Daneli of Judaism once served as prime minister in the Persian Empire and was deeply influenced by the dualism of the religion. Before Christianity became the Roman state religion, the popular Manicheism in Rome was a branch of the religion. Before Augustine converted to Christ, he was a believer of Manicheism. During the Sassanid dynasty (about 226 to 851 years), he was established as the Persian state religion. The first batch of disciples recruited by Buddha Shakyamuni after enlightenment were Zoroastrians. Today, there are still five temples in Iran, but they are all small in scale. Religious ceremonies are also held, with a long-lasting holy fire, which still has a great influence among the Pasi people in Iran and Mumbai, India. Historians call it the outstanding contributions to history and culture.The fifth largest religion in the world. In the 20th century BC, the Aryans who originally lived in the Indo-European language family in Central Asia crossed the Hindu Kush Mountain and poured into the Iranian plateau, creating their own culture and religion.
Believing in the multi-god, especially the God of Fire, and carrying out cumbersome sacrificial rituals, the first reflected in the worship of the gods in "Gatai". The status of the God of Light or the God of Good Ahura Mazda has become very important.
The early primitive religions did not have a unique concept of Creator, but the Lord God gradually developed among the gods. The emergence of the monotheistic religion was directly related to the main content of the Aryan primitive religion, the worship of Mitra was one of the most important objects of worship in ancient times. The worship of fire, light, and sun gods all originated from the worship of Mitra. It was the earliest religious worship of monotheistic Cute buds outside the ancient Egyptian polytheistic worship civilization.
Some people believe that the world's earliest monotheism, the religious reform of Pharaoh Akhenaten (sometimes translated as Ehnaton), had its influence, and of course the evidence was insufficient.
Zoroastrianism was actually a reformed religious belief. It was not until the sixth century BC that Zoroastrian truly completed the monotheistic religious reform. Ahura Mazda became the only, highest, and uncreated main god, the light god, and its prototype Mitra was downgraded to the representative of Ahura Mazda in the world. However, when Islam entered Persia, the most stubborn thing was not the mainstream Persian belief in Zoroastrian at that time, but the older Mitra worship.
After Darius I, the Persian Achaemenid dynasty, came to power in order to unify Persia, he respected Ahura Mazda only in order to unify Persia, and tried to belittle the tribe's clan gods, Taywa, etc. His successors Sezis followed Darius's faith and often called himself the messenger of Ahura Mazda, claiming that the will of God declared the world through the emperor. According to research, Vistaba, the protector of Zoroasd, was the father of Darius, and Zoroasd also respected Ahura Mazda as the supreme god.
The religion during the Achaemenid dynasty was controlled by Mag, who worshipped Ahura Mazda, opposed evil spirits, and carried out sky burial on the dead. Therefore, some people linked Mag with the "Gatai", which reflects the Zoroastrian belief, and believed that the religion was developed based on the beliefs of the Achaemenid dynasty.
After the establishment of the Persian Sassanid dynasty in the third century AD, Zoroastrianism flourished again and gained the status of the state religion.
The Sassanian kings were all the leaders of the church, claiming to be the chief priest of Ahura Mazda, the savior of the soul, etc.
They collected and sorted out lost classics during the Hellenistic period and compiled "Avista" to give the teachings specific and clear content.
In the fifth century, some of the believers of the religion carried out a social and religious reform under the leadership of Mazdak.
Between 491 and 529 years, large-scale and continuous uprisings were launched in Persia and Azerbaijan and other places.
The Sassanid Dynasty adopted policies of deception and high pressure, and the uprising was finally suppressed.
In the fourth century BC, after Alexander the Great conquered Persia, Persia entered the Hellenistic period. Zoroastrianism suffered a heavy blow, but it re-moved around the first year of AD. Mixed gods of Greece and Persia appeared in the Persian pantheon. Ahura Mazda and his gods became partners of the sun god, moon god, etc. During the Roman rule, Mithra (the sun god), one of the Zoroastrian gods, became the object of universal belief in the Mediterranean region.
The Sassanid dynasty fell into Muslims in the sixth century AD. At first, the Caliph expressed tolerance to the Zoroastrians and allowed them to maintain their faith after paying taxes according to law. After the Nurgan, the Zoroastrians forced the Zoroastrians to convert to Islam. The remaining religious believers in Persia were called Gabar (pagan) and partly entered China through the Western Regions, making the religion popular in the Western Regions during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Many people mistakenly confuse Zoroastrianism with Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. In fact, these three are of the same origin but have different doctrines and even slightly conflicting.
Just like the relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Catholicism.
According to statistics in the 1970s, about 170,000 people were distributed in Yesde and Germeng in southern Iran. Another part of the believers moved from Persia to Guzalat on the west coast of India from the beginning of the eighth century, and lost contact with Gabar. They resumed contact after the mid-15th century. After the seventeenth century, they formed a unique social group near Mumbai, known as the Parsi.
According to statistics in the 1980s, there were about 100,000 Pasi people, most of whom operated industry and commerce, and had an important influence on the Indian economy in life.
Ahura Mazda is the highest god of Zoroastrianism, also known as Ormuzd. Ahura Mazda is the good god representing light in the dualism of good and evil, and fights a long battle with Ahriman, an evil god representing darkness, and finally wins.
Creation is divided into seven stages: sky, water, earth, plants, animals, humans, and fire.
In order to fight, Ahura Mazda created the world and man, and first created fire. Zoroasd's birth was the result of the victory of Ahura Mazda, the god of good. The essence of Zoroasd produced a son every thousand years. He appointed the third son as the savior to completely eliminate the devil and allow mankind to enter the kingdom of light, justice and truth. According to one of the classics of this religion, "Genesis", the two gods of good and evil have existed since eternal eternity, and the middle is spaced as void. The two struggled each other, and thus began the creation process.
The myth of the religion divides world history into four stages, each with three thousand years, totaling 12,000 years: in the first stage (the first three thousand), Ahura Mazda created the spiritual world, but no material form, all of which are prototypes; in the second stage (three thousand to six thousand years), the two sides fought in the material world, Angela Manuel killed the original cattle, and the bone marrow of the original cattle produced plants, and its species was purified and produced good animals. Later, he killed the original man, Gayumath, whose corpse turned into metal, and its species was preserved after purification. Forty years later, a pair of male and female ancestors of mankind were born, which looked like rhubarb (a herbaceous plant for many years), and hugged each other closely and reproduced humans, but they were tempted by the evil gods; in the third stage (6 thousand to nine thousand years), Mazda fought fiercely and won and lost to each other.
In the ninth millennium, Zoroastrian was born according to the will of the good God. Its birth marks that the world will enter a new period, and will promote the religion, lead the people to fight against darkness, and stop the evil gods; in the fourth stage (nine thousand to ten thousand years), Zoroastrianism will spread the world and continue to fight. In order to save the world, Zoroastrian's third son will be born at the end of this stage and become the incarnation of righteousness, namely the Savior. He will completely eliminate the demons, achieve the final victory, and guide mankind into the kingdom of light, justice and truth. This is the highest ideal of the religion. These myths will be later inherited by other religions, such as the Savior of Judaism, which will come and establish an ideal thousand-year kingdom.
The religion advocates that in the struggle between good and evil, people have personal free will, good will be rewarded, evil will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded, and what will be treated after death? According to the piety and personal performance of worshiping Mazda during his lifetime, Buddhism has also inherited this idea. The religion also divides the activities of life into three categories: thought, speech, and action. There are two types of good and evil in each category, and they are related to heaven and hell. Those who do good will receive good rewards, and those who do evil will receive evil rewards. Those who do good will gradually enter the kingdom of heaven, first enter the good thinking heaven, then enter the good speaking heaven, then enter the good deed heaven, and finally enter the light and bright heaven, that is, the eternal heaven.
The religion also believes that the soul is reincarnated. It is said that after a person dies, his soul stays on his body for four days to check his thoughts, words and actions throughout his life. On the fourth day, he enters the bridge of judges and is guarded by a group of dogs. If he does good, a girl will greet him and lead him to the road to heaven. If he is evil, he will be a female ghost, leading him to the path to hell and suffer the pain of despair forever.
This shows that the religion has already appeared in the world's religion, and whether the believers are saved is not innate, but depends on their beliefs and thoughts, speeches, and actions during their lifetime.
It is the source of Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. It is called Zoroastrianism in China. Zoroastrian was the founder of the religion. He came from a noble knight family in the Kingdom of Medes. He abandoned his family and lived in seclusion at the age of 20. At the age of 30, he was inspired by God. He reformed the traditional polytheism and founded the Zoroastrianism, but was persecuted by the traditional priests. It was not until the age of 42 that the prime minister of Daxia married his daughter as his wife and introduced him to the king. After that, Zoroastrianism spread rapidly in Daxia.
At the age of seventy-seven, he was killed in a temple in a war.
There is another saying that Zoroastrian lived earlier, and Zoroastrianism was not his first creation, he was just a master.
The religion believes that Ahura Mazda (meaning the Lord of Wisdom is the Supreme Lord God, the omniscient and omnipotent Creator of the Universe. It has virtues such as light, life, creation, and is also the embodiment of heaven, order and truth. Mazda created the material world and also created fire, that is, infinite light, so Zoroastrianism regards worship as their divine duty.
The emergence of Zoroastrianism had a profound influence on the later Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The prophet Daneli of Judaism once served as prime minister in the Persian Empire and was deeply influenced by the dualism of the religion. Before Christianity became the Roman state religion, the popular Manicheism in Rome was a branch of the religion. Before Augustine converted to Christ, he was a believer of Manicheism. During the Sassanid dynasty (about 226 to 851 years), he was established as the Persian state religion. The first batch of disciples recruited by Buddha Shakyamuni after enlightenment were Zoroastrians. Today, there are still five temples in Iran, but they are all small in scale. Religious ceremonies are also held, with a long-lasting holy fire, which still has a great influence among the Pasi people in Iran and Mumbai, India. Historians call it the outstanding contributions to history and culture.The fifth largest religion in the world. In the 20th century BC, the Aryans who originally lived in the Indo-European language family in Central Asia crossed the Hindu Kush Mountain and poured into the Iranian plateau, creating their own culture and religion.
Believing in the multi-god, especially the God of Fire, and carrying out cumbersome sacrificial rituals, the first reflected in the worship of the gods in "Gatai". The status of the God of Light or the God of Good Ahura Mazda has become very important.
The early primitive religions did not have a unique concept of Creator, but the Lord God gradually developed among the gods. The emergence of the monotheistic religion was directly related to the main content of the Aryan primitive religion, the worship of Mitra was one of the most important objects of worship in ancient times. The worship of fire, light, and sun gods all originated from the worship of Mitra. It was the earliest religious worship of monotheistic Cute buds outside the ancient Egyptian polytheistic worship civilization.
Some people believe that the world's earliest monotheism, the religious reform of Pharaoh Akhenaten (sometimes translated as Ehnaton), had its influence, and of course the evidence was insufficient.
Zoroastrianism was actually a reformed religious belief. It was not until the sixth century BC that Zoroastrian truly completed the monotheistic religious reform. Ahura Mazda became the only, highest, and uncreated main god, the light god, and its prototype Mitra was downgraded to the representative of Ahura Mazda in the world. However, when Islam entered Persia, the most stubborn thing was not the mainstream Persian belief in Zoroastrian at that time, but the older Mitra worship.
After Darius I, the Persian Achaemenid dynasty, came to power in order to unify Persia, he respected Ahura Mazda only in order to unify Persia, and tried to belittle the tribe's clan gods, Taywa, etc. His successors Sezis followed Darius's faith and often called himself the messenger of Ahura Mazda, claiming that the will of God declared the world through the emperor. According to research, Vistaba, the protector of Zoroasd, was the father of Darius, and Zoroasd also respected Ahura Mazda as the supreme god.
The religion during the Achaemenid dynasty was controlled by Mag, who worshipped Ahura Mazda, opposed evil spirits, and carried out sky burial on the dead. Therefore, some people linked Mag with the "Gatai", which reflects the Zoroastrian belief, and believed that the religion was developed based on the beliefs of the Achaemenid dynasty.
After the establishment of the Persian Sassanid dynasty in the third century AD, Zoroastrianism flourished again and gained the status of the state religion.
The Sassanian kings were all the leaders of the church, claiming to be the chief priest of Ahura Mazda, the savior of the soul, etc.
They collected and sorted out lost classics during the Hellenistic period and compiled "Avista" to give the teachings specific and clear content.
In the fifth century, some of the believers of the religion carried out a social and religious reform under the leadership of Mazdak.
Between 491 and 529 years, large-scale and continuous uprisings were launched in Persia and Azerbaijan and other places.
The Sassanid Dynasty adopted policies of deception and high pressure, and the uprising was finally suppressed.
In the fourth century BC, after Alexander the Great conquered Persia, Persia entered the Hellenistic period. Zoroastrianism suffered a heavy blow, but it re-moved around the first year of AD. Mixed gods of Greece and Persia appeared in the Persian pantheon. Ahura Mazda and his gods became partners of the sun god, moon god, etc. During the Roman rule, Mithra (the sun god), one of the Zoroastrian gods, became the object of universal belief in the Mediterranean region.
The Sassanid dynasty fell into Muslims in the sixth century AD. At first, the Caliph expressed tolerance to the Zoroastrians and allowed them to maintain their faith after paying taxes according to law. After the Nurgan, the Zoroastrians forced the Zoroastrians to convert to Islam. The remaining religious believers in Persia were called Gabar (pagan) and partly entered China through the Western Regions, making the religion popular in the Western Regions during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Many people mistakenly confuse Zoroastrianism with Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. In fact, these three are of the same origin but have different doctrines and even slightly conflicting.
Just like the relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Catholicism.
According to statistics in the 1970s, about 170,000 people were distributed in Yesde and Germeng in southern Iran. Another part of the believers moved from Persia to Guzalat on the west coast of India from the beginning of the eighth century, and lost contact with Gabar. They resumed contact after the mid-15th century. After the seventeenth century, they formed a unique social group near Mumbai, known as the Parsi.
According to statistics in the 1980s, there were about 100,000 Pasi people, most of whom operated industry and commerce, and had an important influence on the Indian economy in life.
Ahura Mazda is the highest god of Zoroastrianism, also known as Ormuzd. Ahura Mazda is the good god representing light in the dualism of good and evil, and fights a long battle with Ahriman, an evil god representing darkness, and finally wins.
Creation is divided into seven stages: sky, water, earth, plants, animals, humans, and fire.
In order to fight, Ahura Mazda created the world and man, and first created fire. Zoroasd's birth was the result of the victory of Ahura Mazda, the god of good. The essence of Zoroasd produced a son every thousand years. He appointed the third son as the savior to completely eliminate the devil and allow mankind to enter the kingdom of light, justice and truth. According to one of the classics of this religion, "Genesis", the two gods of good and evil have existed since eternal eternity, and the middle is spaced as void. The two struggled each other, and thus began the creation process.
The myth of the religion divides world history into four stages, each with three thousand years, totaling 12,000 years: in the first stage (the first three thousand), Ahura Mazda created the spiritual world, but no material form, all of which are prototypes; in the second stage (three thousand to six thousand years), the two sides fought in the material world, Angela Manuel killed the original cattle, and the bone marrow of the original cattle produced plants, and its species was purified and produced good animals. Later, he killed the original man, Gayumath, whose corpse turned into metal, and its species was preserved after purification. Forty years later, a pair of male and female ancestors of mankind were born, which looked like rhubarb (a herbaceous plant for many years), and hugged each other closely and reproduced humans, but they were tempted by the evil gods; in the third stage (6 thousand to nine thousand years), Mazda fought fiercely and won and lost to each other.
In the ninth millennium, Zoroastrian was born according to the will of the good God. Its birth marks that the world will enter a new period, and will promote the religion, lead the people to fight against darkness, and stop the evil gods; in the fourth stage (nine thousand to ten thousand years), Zoroastrianism will spread the world and continue to fight. In order to save the world, Zoroastrian's third son will be born at the end of this stage and become the incarnation of righteousness, namely the Savior. He will completely eliminate the demons, achieve the final victory, and guide mankind into the kingdom of light, justice and truth. This is the highest ideal of the religion. These myths will be later inherited by other religions, such as the Savior of Judaism, which will come and establish an ideal thousand-year kingdom.
The religion advocates that in the struggle between good and evil, people have personal free will, good will be rewarded, evil will be rewarded, and evil will be rewarded, and what will be treated after death? According to the piety and personal performance of worshiping Mazda during his lifetime, Buddhism has also inherited this idea. The religion also divides the activities of life into three categories: thought, speech, and action. There are two types of good and evil in each category, and they are related to heaven and hell. Those who do good will receive good rewards, and those who do evil will receive evil rewards. Those who do good will gradually enter the kingdom of heaven, first enter the good thinking heaven, then enter the good speaking heaven, then enter the good deed heaven, and finally enter the light and bright heaven, that is, the eternal heaven.
The religion also believes that the soul is reincarnated. It is said that after a person dies, his soul stays on his body for four days to check his thoughts, words and actions throughout his life. On the fourth day, he enters the bridge of judges and is guarded by a group of dogs. If he does good, a girl will greet him and lead him to the road to heaven. If he is evil, he will be a female ghost, leading him to the path to hell and suffer the pain of despair forever.
This shows that the religion has already appeared in the world's religion, and whether the believers are saved is not innate, but depends on their beliefs and thoughts, speeches, and actions during their lifetime.
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