And the dance dies away and is lost in ethereal regions, and Zarathustra is lost to sight while dancing in distant worlds. But when Zarathustra tries to drive out the cowardly devils in men, the cry is raised against him, " Zarathustra is godless. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! Forgot your password? Retrieve it. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate image within your search results please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
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Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian. Hayley Australian. Zoroaster rejected the religion of the Bronze Age Iranians with their many gods and oppressive class structure, in which the Karvis and Karapans princes and priests controlled the ordinary people. He also opposed animal sacrifices and the use of the hallucinogenic Haoma plant possibly a species of ephedra in rituals.
When Zoroaster was thirty years old he had a divine vision of God and his Amesha Spentas during a ritual purification rite. This vision radically transformed his view of the world, and he tried to teach this view to others. Zoroaster believed in one creator God, teaching that only one God was worthy of worship. Furthermore, some of the deities of the old religion, the Daevas Devas in Sanskrit , appeared to delight in war and strife.
Zoroaster said that these were evil spirits and were workers of Angra Mainyu , God's adversary. Zoroaster's ideas did not take off quickly and at first he only had one convert: his cousin Maidhyoimanha. The local religious authorities opposed his ideas. They felt their own faiths, power, and particularly their rituals, threatened, because Zoroaster taught against over-ritualising religious ceremonies. Many ordinary people did not like Zoroaster's downgrading of the Daevas to evil spirits.
After twelve years, Zoroaster left his home to find somewhere more open to new ideas. He found such a place in the country of King Vishtaspa in Bactria. The King and his queen, Hutosa, heard Zoroaster debating with the religious leaders of his land, and decided to accept Zoroaster's ideas and made them the official religion of their kingdom. Very little is known of the time between Zoroaster and the Archaemenian period except that during this period Zoroastrianism spread to Western Iran.
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