Zartosht

I found the mystery in Avestan and Pahlavi texts to be very surprising. That even many parsi priests donot completely understand their holy texts, but yet their tradition and culture has endured for more than 3 millennia!

What amazed me when I was going through the article was the close links between Zorastrianism and other later monotheistic religions. It was very interesting to realize certain practices and rituals, and even certain dogmas and doctrines, of monotheistic religions were originally practiced by Zorastrianism.

One of the major doctrines or rather stories that all monotheistic religions share with Zorastrianism is the Judgement day. They all profess that a savior will come to rid of earth all the wickedness and evil!!! In fact where in Christianity Jesus descends on earth from the heavens and in Islam the last Imam would come back to challenge all evils on earth, In Zorastrianism; Soashyant, Zartosht’s son would be born from the seed of him kept in a lake and a virgin mother!!! (interestingly enough almost the same way Jesus came to being). Even praying 5 times a day, which is one of the 5 pillars of Islam, seems to have originated with Zorastrianism.

I find this interesting because all monotheistic religions, or at least their followers believe their religion to be higher than others and hold their religious doctrines as universal, compared to others. But, its very ironic that they should realize majority of their stories, dogmas and religious doctrines originated with an ancient religion, which they probably referred to as primitive and magic oriented. Even if not the same, their practices are awful similar If not the same, than most probably different adaptations of them.

I know this might be a very ignorant argument, but its most definitely an interesting one!!