Mani combines Zoroastrian dualism with Christian theology and his disciples gain wide support for Manichaeism despite opposition from Byzantine and Roman Emperors.

This should not however be construed to reflect a view of a primordial opposition: Although the daevas would in later Zoroastrian tradition appear as malign creatures, in the Gathas the daevas are ( collectively ) gods that are to be rejected.

The Georgians ' new faith, which replaced pagan and Zoroastrian beliefs, allied them permanently with the Eastern Roman Empire, while placing them on the front line of conflict between the Christian and Islamic worlds.

The resultant discord mirrors the ancient conflict, which in Persian mythology is based on the Zoroastrian concept of the dual emanation of Ahura Mazda ( Avestan, or Ormuzd in later Persian ).

The conflict between good and evil is one of the precepts of the Zoroastrian faith, first enshrined by Zarathustra over 3000 years ago.

Although the worship of images would eventually fall out of favour ( and be replaced by the iconoclastic fire temples ), the lasting legacy of the Achaemenids was a vast, complex hierarchy of Yazatas ( modern Zoroastrianism's Angels ) that were now not just evident in the religion, but firmly established, not least because the divinities received dedications in the Zoroastrian calendar, thus ensuring that they were frequently invoked.

is an exact cognate with Avestan Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī, perhaps originally referring to Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā ( modern Ardwisur Anahid ), the Zoroastrian mythological world river, which would point to a common Indo-Iranian myth of a cosmic or mystical river.

The Zoroastrians of India, who represent one of the largest surviving Zoroastrian communities worldwide, would transcribe Avestan in Brahmi-based scripts as well as the Avestan alphabet.

By the 9th century, the Zoroastrian theologian Zadspram had noted that the state of affairs was less than optimal, and estimated that at the time of Final Judgement the two systems would be out of sync by four years.

He became a legendary figure for many in Persia, and several Persian heretics started revolts claiming he had not died and would return ; the latter included his own propagandist Ishaq al-Turk, the Zoroastrian cleric Sunpadh in Nishapur, the Abu Muslimiyya subsect of the Kaysanites Shia, and al-Muqanna in Khorasan.

In Vancouver, the Zoroastrian community annually gathers in a specific spot in the mountains on June 13 and practices the rituals and traditions that they would be enacting were they able to travel to Pir-e Sabz itself.

In response, one of the Zoroastrian priests added a pinch of sugar to the milk, thus indicating that they would not bring the vessel to overflowing and indeed make the lives of the citizens sweeter.

Another late Zoroastrian text, the Mēnog ī xrad, says that this was ultimately good, because if Dahāg had not become king, the rule would have been taken by the immortal demon Xešm ( Aēšma ), and so evil would have ruled upon earth until the end of the world.

At one time it rivalled Christianity and the Zoroastrian religion of Persia, however it was driven out of existence by Persian and later Arab Islamic persecutions.

Haoma is the Avestan language name of a plant and its divinity, both of which play a role in Zoroastrian doctrine and in later Persian culture and mythology.

In later times, Men may have been identified with both Attis of Phrygia and Sabazius of Thrace ; he may shared a common origin with the Zoroastrian lunar divinity Mah.

Moreover, Angra Mainyu or Ahriman in Persian, once the Zoroastrian epitome of evil, lost its original Zoroastrian / Mazdaist identity in later Persian literature, and was ultimately depicted as a div.

In later Zoroastrianism, atar ( in middle Persian: ādar or ādur ) is iconographically conflated with fire itself, which in middle Persian is ataksh, one of the primary objects of Zoroastrian symbolism.

Fear from among the nobility and Zoroastrian clergy grew so strong that King Kavadh was overthrown in 496, but he managed to get the throne back three years later with the help of the Hephthalites.

These Zoroastrians, who were at first called Sanjanas or Khorasanis ( today, the descendants of these and later Zoroastrian emigrants are collectively known as the Parsis ), are thought to have named the Indian west-coast settlement after the city of their origin.

The term Holy Guardian Angel was possibly coined either by Abraham of Würzburg, a French Cabalist who wrote a book on ceremonial magick during the 15th century or Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, the founder of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, who later translated this manuscript and elaborated on this earlier work, giving it extensive magical notes, but the original concept goes back to the Zoroastrian Arda Fravaš (' Holy Guardian Angels ').

People of Arrajan were originally Zoroastrian during the elamite period, and later on converted to Islam.

The traditional Zoroastrians argue that the Vendidad was always an inherent part of Zoroastrian oral tradition, only compiled later than other parts of the Avesta.

The word magi originally referred to Zoroastrian priests in Persia, but by the time this gospel was written it had come to mean anyone who dabbled in the occult arts such as magic, astrology, and dream interpretation.

The situation changed by the ascension of Bahram I in 273, who under the influence of the zealous Zoroastrian high priest Kartir persecuted all non-Zoroastrian religions.

Others emphasize elements of a pre-Islamic substrate within Aleviness, as in the case of groups such as the Yaresan and the Yezidis, Zoroastrian influence might play some part.

Another important architectural trend to arise in the Seljuk era is the development of mausolea including the tomb tower such as the Gunbad-i-qabus ( circa 1006-7 ) ( showcasing a Zoroastrian motif ) and the domed square, an example of which is the tomb of the Samanids in the city of Bukhara ( circa 943 ).

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

This is more than many well known traditions such as Rastafarian, Bahá ' í and Zoroastrian groups, but fewer than the ' Big Six ' of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism.

The name of the satrapy was changed to Asuristan ( Assyria ) in the Sassanid period, which began in 226 AD, and by this time Eastern Rite Christianity ( which emerged in the 1st century AD ) had become the dominant religion among the native populace, who had never adopted the Zoroastrian or Hellenic religions of their rulers.

* Samvel Mamikonian killed his father Vahan, who converted to Christianity and joined the Zoroastrian Persian Empire.

In Constantinople he seems to have early won the notice of Justinian I, one of the main objects of whose policy was the consolidation of Eastern Christianity as a bulwark against the Zoroastrian power of Persia, through persecution of all the remaining pagans of the empire.

* Samvel killed his father Vahan, who converted to Christianity and joined the Zoroastrian Persian Empire.

A priestly Zoroastrian inscription from the time of King Bahram II ( 276 – 293 CE ) contains a list of religions ( including Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism etc.

Bahá ' u ' lláh's eschatological claims constitute six distinctive messianic identifications: from Judaism, the incarnation of the " Everlasting Father " from the Yuletide prophecy of Isaiah 9: 6, the " Lord of Hosts "; from Christianity, the " Spirit of Truth " or Comforter predicted by Jesus in his farewell discourse of John 14-17 and the return of Christ " in the glory of the Father "; from Zoroastrianism, the return of Shah Bahram Varjavand, a Zoroastrian messiah predicted in various late Pahlavi texts ; from Shi ' a Islam the return of the Third Imam, Imam Husayn ; from Sunni Islam, the return of Jesus, Isa ; and from Bábism, He whom God shall make manifest.

Martin Haug's interpretations of Zoroastrian scripture allows the yazatas to be compared to the angels of Christianity.

He is the main antagonist of Xenas third season and the fifth season of Hercules, and loosely based upon the figure of the same name found in Persian / Zoroastrian mythology.

" Shahāb ad-Dīn " Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardī (, also known as Sohrevardi ) was a Iranian, philosopher, a Sufi and founder of the Illuminationist philosophy or " Oriental Theosophy ", an important school in Islamic mysticism that drew upon Zoroastrian and Platonic ideas.

Although these latter conclusions were not substantiated by Zoroastrian tradition, at the time Haug's interpretation was gratefully accepted by the Parsis of Bombay since it provided a defense against Christian missionary rhetoric, particularly the attacks on the Zoroastrian idea of an uncreated Evil that was as uncreated as God was.

While Slavic languages are related to the Iranian group of the Indo European language family inasmuch as both went through satemization, and the ancient Proto-Slavs were certainly to some degree influenced by their Iranian-speaking neighbours of West Asia ( such as the Scythians and Sarmatians ), the idea that the Slavic peoples as a whole are a direct off-shoot of Zoroastrian Persians is not only unprovable, but also quite unbelievable.

The first noted use of lapis lazuli as a pigment can be seen in the 6th-and 7th-century AD cave paintings in Afghanistani Zoroastrian and Buddhist temples, near the most famous source of the mineral.

It finds earliest mention in the Atharva Veda ( 1000 BC ), vi 97, 1, ( source Monier Williams ) though pouring into the ritual fire was known as early as in the ( c. 1400 BC ) and it the closely related Zoroastrian religion ( Yasna Haptaŋhāiti ).