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	Welcome to zarathushtra.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zarathushtra is generally not a household name anywhere in the world, and amongst those who know him, Zarathushtra remains as one of the most misunderstood and misinterpreted people.
		Zarathushtra's Teachings is in the Gathas, and not the Avesta.
		Zarathushtra's message is not a religion, his teachings are based on the collective and the wholeness of existence.
	www.zarathushtra.org (330 words)

	Universal Religion of Zarathushtra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zarathushtra’s teachings are, first of all, addressed to the persons whose wrong doctrines are harmful to the human society.
		Zarathushtra’s foremost task is to purify every unit in the world, from family, the smallest, to the inhabited world, the largest; from the ills that plague the society.
		Zarathushtra addresses the wise only and it is his thought-provoking message that stimulates one to understand his words.
	www.zoroastrian.org /articles/Universal_Religion.htm (1029 words)

	Zarathushtra - A Unique Personality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In the eulogy Zarathushtra is constantly referred to as the "foremost" because he is the first and foremost in giving an entirely fresh outlook to every aspect of life -- spiritual, mental, physical, material, and ethical.
		Zarathushtra was not visited by a deity in the shape of a human being or some natural phenomenon.
		Zarathushtra was neither a blind follower nor the promulgator of an ancient cult.
	www.zoroastrian.org /articles/Message_of_Zarathushtra/Pt_01_Zarathushtra_Unique_Personality.htm (1265 words)

	Jeromy McBride's Compilation of Zarathushtra
		Zarathushtra was believed to have lived around BC 600, but some current estimates have revised this date to anywhere between BC 1000 to as far back as BC 1500 or even earlier.
		Zarathushtra is supposed to have spent his early manhood in the wilderness studying and working out philosophical and religious principles.
		Zarathushtra taught that since this world created by Ahura Mazda is essentially good, man should live well and enjoy its bountiful gifts, though always in moderation, as the states of excess and deficiency in Zoroastrianism, are deemed to be the workings of Anghra Mainyu.
	home.comcast.net /~jeromys-site/zarathushtra.htm (2680 words)

	The Achaemenid Empire
		According to this view, Zarathushtra lived in the court of Darius’ father as the chief clergy and influenced Darius as a young man. It was due to this influence that Darius makes constant mentions of Ahuramāmazdā and other Zoroastrian motifs in his inscriptions.
		Finally, Zarathushtra was killed while praying in Bactria by one of the priests of the wrong religion that had entered the city with the conquering armies of Arjaspa.
		Zarathushtra’s attempt to awaken the wisdom and its lord, Mazda-Ahura, is in fact creating the morality needed for a settled population with a more centralised and concentrated system of government.
	www.iranologie.com /history/zarathushtra.html (2380 words)

	ZARATHUSHTRA: Prophet and Founder
		Zarathushtra, in the legends, had three wives (in sequence) of whom the last was Hvovi (Good Cattle) the daughter of King Vishtaspa's prime minister.
		In the later Avesta, Zarathushtra is used as a character in dialogue with Ahura Mazda; he is featured in ritual texts and in law- texts, and great amounts of ritual and doctrine are thus attributed to him, whether he was their originator or not.
		Zarathushtra's preaching to King Vishtaspa was enhanced by miracles, especially the healing of a paralyzed horse that convinced the king to accept the new religion.
	www.accessnewage.com /articles/mystic/zardush.htm (1623 words)

	About Zarathushtra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zarathushtra encountered many difficulties and challenges imposed on him through the opposition of the established priests and local ruling princes.
		Zarathushtra manages to answer all questions to the satisfaction of the King, who after a few days of pondering the situation, embraces this new religion and urges his subjects to do the same.
		Two of the noted disciples of Zarathushtra, as mentioned in the Gathas, are Frashaoshtra and Jamaspa of the Hvogva family.
	www.zarathushtra.com /z/life (561 words)

	Dualism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Psychology, for the prophet and poet Zarathushtra, would be expressed in personification and mythical terms, hence his use of metaphor in calling the two "twins." Jafarey's use of the word "imaginary" to describe the twins is rather misleading.
		Zarathushtra calls people to reject evil and choose good as the first and foremost religious act: "...those who would please the Wise God, may do so by choosing true actions." The dualism between Good and Evil, in the Ethical view, is one which is experienced only by sentient beings, whether human or divine.
		Though Zarathushtra did contemplate pairs of opposites in the natural world in his Gathas (light and darkness, sleep and waking, night and day, in Yasna 44) the only true Zoroastrian dualism, whether in the Ethical or the Cosmic view, is the dualism of Good and Evil.
	www.sullivan-county.com /z/dualism.htm (5449 words)

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		According to this view, Zarathushtra lived in the court of Darius’ father as the chief clergy and influenced Darius as a young man. It was due to this influence that Darius makes constant mentions of Ahuramamazda and other Zoroastrian motifs in his inscriptions.
		However, everything in the Gathas points us to conclude that Zarathushtra was born in a pastoral society of the Bronze Age and lived somewhere in the steppes of eastern Caspian or Transoxiana in the court of a major chief called Kavi Wishtaspa.
		Zarathushtra also condemns “Kavis and Karpans”, the kings and priests who still support the old religion, the religion of wrongness with its belief in natural forces and multiple gods.
	www.cappuccinomag.com /iranologyenglish/001414.html (2484 words)

	Zoroastrianism on other religions
		Although the teachings of prophet Zarathushtra were primarily spiritual, and substantially devoid of mythological and ritualistic beliefs, Zoroastrianism, the religion that was based on his teachings incorporated many aspects of pre-Zarathushtra traditions as well as novel and creative approaches to ritualism.
		While Cyrus true to Zarathushtra's teachings, was very respectful of other beliefs and allowed them to flourish of their own accord, and even supported them; it was inevitable that Zoroastrianism as the dominant faith would influence the conquered peoples, perhaps more so than be influenced by them.
		"Zarathushtra's doctrine of rewards and punishment, of an eternity of bliss and an eternity of woe allotted to good and evil men in another life beyond the grave is so strikingly similar to Christian teaching that we cannot fail to ask whether here at least there is not a direct influence at work.
	www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Zoroastrim/zoroastrianism_on_other_religions.htm (1624 words)

	Religious Movements Homepage: Zoroastrianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		According to tradition, Zarathushtra's initial revelation came at the age of 30 (Boyce, 19).
		Zarathushtra then received a revelation that Ahura Mazda was the single, eternal, and moral creator god.
		The conditions of Zarathushtra's death are uncertain, and the exact means by which the religion institutionalized unknown.
	religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/Zoro1.html (1543 words)

	Birthday of Asho Zarathushtra
		She took care of Zarathushtra’s education and provoked in him the desire to search and discover.
		Zarathushtra's one discovery, the best, Mazda, provided him with all the principles of the good life on this earth and beyond.
		And Zarathushtra has remained a human being all through the 4,000-year history of the Zarathushtrian religion, an unusual phenomenon in the history of religions.
	www.vohuman.org /Article/Birthday%20Of%20Asho%20Zarathushtra.htm (739 words)

	crystallotus.com - The Prophet Zarathushtra - convergence of knowledge- acupressure angkorvat banaras river ganga atma ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		One of the earliest prophets on this earth was Zarathushtra Spitaman in order to appreciate Zarathushtra’s greatness; we have to understand the times and conditions when Zarathushtra lived.
		Zarathushtra was born into the spitaman family and his birthplace is believed to be some where near the Aral Sea.
		According to ancient tradition, when zarathushtra was twenty years of ago, the left his parents home in a search for truth.
	www.crystallotus.com /Zorastra/01.htm (359 words)

	Helmand: the river in Arachosia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zarathushtra's father Pourushaspa of the Spitama clan of an Iranian tribe, raised cattle and was famous for his horses.
		Zarathushtra undaunted faced the King and his court but it was a struggle of epic proportions.
		Zarathushtra's message stood for peace, progress, and prosperity on this good earth and a blissful life beyond.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/helmand/helmand1.htm (1868 words)

	Temptation of Zarathushtra
		Zarathushtra saw through insight that the wicked, evil-doing demons were taking counsel together for his death.
		Angra Mainyu tells Zarathushtra that he was a mere man born of human parents, and could not therefore withstand his onslaughts.
		Haoma says that Zarathushtra drove back beneath the earth the daevas that were stalking the earth in the shape of human beings.
	www.vohuman.org /Article/Temptation%20of%20Zarathushtra.htm (374 words)

	Culture Course-Vol - V - Zarathustra -(page1)
		Zarathushtra was born some 3000 years ago.He lived in the country now called Iran.
		When Zarathushtra was a child, wicked People tried to kill him by throwing him among fierce bulls, and then among horses' feet.
		Zarathushtra then spread the Zoroastrian religion with the help of the King of Iran.
	www.hindubooks.org /culture_course/book5/Zarathushtra/page1.htm (159 words)

	A newly discovered Armenian parable on the Zarathushtra's Laughter
		In the history of Moses Zarathushtra is depicted as a king of the Bactrians, a Magian and a patriarch of the Medes, who was a contemporary of the Assyrian queen Semiramis.
		The parable deals with the birth of Zarathushtra, with very well known miracle of his birth, when he laughed instead of crying at his birth.
		The tradition recounting the loud laughter of Zarathushtra as he came to the world is very old.
	ambarts.tripod.com /files/parable.htm (915 words)

	Zarathushtra - Zoroastrianism - Ancinet-Mythology.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zarathushtra was the founder of Zoroastrianism, and was estimated to have lived sometime in the second millenium BCE (although some who follow the religion claim that Zoroastrianism was founded around 6000 BCE.)
		According to Zoroastrian legend, the birth of Zarathushtra was foretold and that some evil men tried to kill him as a child.
		Zarathushtra preached about monotheism in a world of polytheists.
	www.ancient-mythology.com /zoroastrianism/zarathushtra.php (85 words)

	A biography of Zarathustra, life and times, at zoroastrianism.cc/zarathushtra_biography.html
		Zarathushtra was the founder of the first religion on record.
		Zarathushtra's sublime message to mankind is so simple that it is contained in a small book of 17 songs called "The Gathas of Zarathushtra".
		Zarathushtra is believed to have lived at a time when the world was emerging from the prehistoric Stone Age.
	www.zoroastrianism.cc /zarathushtra_biography.html (1313 words)

	Subhash Kak's Blog - Subhash Kak web blogs, Subhash Kak blogger in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Zarathushtra presented his religion as rival to the religion of the daevas, that is Daevayasna.
		Zarathushtra made a similar simplification using the dichotomy of asura (including deva under the label yazata) and daeva.
		Zarathushtra's innovation lay in his emphasis on the dichotomy of good and bad.
	www.sulekha.com /expressions/column.asp?cid=305849 (1473 words)

	Zarathushtra, Mani, and the Cathars by Sanderson Beck
		According to tradition Zarathushtra was born smiling or laughing as the third of five sons in the Spitama family in the pastoral Median town of Rhages near what is now Tehran; he was initiated into the priesthood at age fifteen.
		Zarathushtra criticized aggressive violators of order as followers of the Lie, and his teachings were opposed by the religious authorities.
		Zarathushtra declared that there is one God, the Wise Lord he called Ahura Mazda, transforming the polytheism of the Aryan religion into monotheism.
	www.san.beck.org /GPJ8-ManiandCathars.html (7228 words)

	Zarathushtra's Time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		These scholars generally try to compare the social aspects of life during Zarathushtra (as can be deducted from the Gathas) and compare it with the first accurately known times, namely, the Achaemenian era, and then place a date.
		The Pahlavi of the Bundahishn, one of the Zoroastrian scripture written around the time of the Arab conquest of Persia, (either in the Sassanian era, or after the Arab attack), states that Zarathushtra was born in 588 BC, stating that this was 258 years before Alexander’s conquest of Persia.
		It is important to be able to determine when and where Zarathushtra lived, since we will then be able to consider his life and choices in the context of his environment and the socio-economic structure of his time.
	www.zarathushtra.com /z/life/time.htm (596 words)

	Birthday of Asho Zarathushtra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		They named him Zarathushtra to rhyme with the names of his two elder brothers -- Rataushtra and Rangushtra.
		The Spitâmas were a prosperous cattle-raising family and lived near the bank of a river, later called Dâiti, the Lawful, in Airyana Vaeja, once northeastern Iran and now in Central Asia.
		Provoked to discover truth, Zarathushtra discovered Mazda Ahura, literally The Super-Intellect Being, a god so different from human-visualized gods, a god transcendental and yet so close as to be a beloved, a god very impersonal in mind but very personal in thought, a god that means only good.
	www.spentalouisville.com /Birthday_of_%20Asho_%20Zarathushtra.htm (739 words)

	ZARATHUSHTRA THE PRIEST: by Sarosh Manekshaw
		Thus, it is clear that Zarathushtra's wrath was exclusively aimed at the proto-Indoaryans, the cattle-raiders, and THEIR PRIESTS (the 'usig-s' and 'karapan-s'), whom he labeled the 'daeva' (false gods) worshippers.
		Thus, Zarathushtra, not only receive formal training as a priest, but his very admission in his Gathas, that he was a 'zaotar', indicates that he was a practicing priest as well.
		Zarathushtra, as a practicing priest would have primarily ministered to a congregation of herdsmen, and if their main concern was the welfare of their herds then, clearly, this issue would have become most crucial to Zarathushtra as well.
	tenets.zoroastrianism.com /priest33.html (4279 words)

	Zoroastrianism: A Short Overview
		The modern estimate of Zarathushtra's date is anywhere from 1500 to 1000 B.C.E. The basic scripture of Zoroastrianism is a set of 5 poetic songs called the Gathas, which were composed by Zarathushtra himself and have been preserved through the millennia by Zoroastrian priests.
		Zarathushtra did not specify a fixed number of Attributes, but soon after the Prophet they were specified into seven.
		This fire, which was a God- symbol even before Zarathushtra, was used by the Prophet and by his followers ever after as the ideal sign of God, who is light, warmth, energy.
	www.accessnewage.com /articles/mystic/zoroview.htm (1042 words)

	AVESTA: YASNA (Sacred Liturgy and Gathas/Hymns of Zarathushtra)
		And we worship the sacred Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama the saint.
		And (having invoked it) hither, we worship the Fravashi of Gaya Maretan the holy, and the sanctity and Fravashi of Zarathushtra Spitama the saint; and we worship the Fravashi of Kavi Vishtasp the holy, and that of Isat-vastra the Zarathushtrian, the saint.
		(Zarathushtra) -- But ye, ye Daevas all, and he that highly honors you, are the seed of Bad Thought -- yes, and of the Lie and of Arrogance, likewise your deeds, whereby ye have long been known in the seventh region of the earth.
	www.sacred-texts.com /zor/sbe31/yasnae.htm (18232 words)

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