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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: the truth about Zoaster Zoroaster/Zarathustra A religious change in Persia came about through the teachings of a man called Zoroaster (c.628-551? BC). Zoroaster, like Gautama Buddha (c.563-483? BC), may or may not have existed. The dates of their supposed lives vary by hundreds of years, and both were held to be one of numerous incarnations of zoroasters and buddhas. If there were real men behind either of these legends, then both their stories are obviously greatly embellished and rooted in the primal Mesopotamian myths. For a start, it is not credible that Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, was his given family name. The word literally means Seed of the Woman (Zero-Ashta, Zoro-Ishtar), and it is clear from everything we now know about this title that it is part and parcel of a grand strategy to substitute someone else for the LORD, be they man, god-man or complete myth. Zoroaster may have been given this name to identify him with Nimrod, or he may have chosen it for himself. The dark and powerful association would have been obvious to the people of his day, and others subsequently noted it. One of the Orphic hymns of ancient Greece, for instance, refers to Bacchus (Son of Cush) as Zoroaster. It is thought that the man behind Zoroaster was probably a priest at the time when Persian religion was dominated by the Magi (origin of the word magic and magician), a priesthood similar to that of Egypt and reportedly endowed with miraculous powers. His role in Persian history was strikingly similar to that of Muhammed in Arabian history 1200 years later. Persia had first been inundated with a pantheon of Mesopotamian gods from the west and then by recycled Indus deities like Mithra from the east. Like Muhammed, who would reject the many deities of Babel in Arabia except for the moon god Allah, from whom he claimed he received a vision, Zoroaster shunned the gods of Persia, including Mithra, in favour of one, Ahura Mazda, from whom he supposedly had a revelation. This was nothing new. Akhenaten had chosen the sungod Atum as the sole god of Egypt around 1400 BC. But nevertheless Zoroaster’s monotheism was a significant change for Persia. Beginning with Darius (born 550 BC, king of Persia 522-486 BC), the Persian kings of the Achaemenid dynasty were Zoroastrians. Zoroastrianism nearly died out with the arrival of Islam in Persia, and the remainder of the cult moved to the Bombay area in India to escape Muslim persecution. They are still known as Parsis or Parsees (Persians) and worship Ahura Mazda. Their scriptures are known as the Avesta. They are often regarded as fire-worshippers, keeping alive a sacred flame in their temples, very similar to the Greek fires of Olympus (the Olympic flame that must not be allowed to die) and the fires of the goddess Vesta (kept alight by vestal virgins). They wait for a final zoroaster to appear, "the foremost of three saviours who are all posthumous sons of Zoroaster. One will appear at the end of each of the three last millennia of the world, miraculously conceived by a maiden…" (Encyclopedia Britannica, Zoroaster, Std.Ver.1999) Here we see the endlessly copied story of Dumuzi/Osiris coming back in a miracle birth as the son Damu/Horus. The name for this counterfeit redeemer changes repeatedly, but the Mesopotamian clone, born of a cosmic virgin birth, is exactly the same fake seed we find everywhere. Biblical prophets like Daniel and Ezekiel, in their exile in Babylon, would have known exactly who and what Zoroaster represented.
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