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Sources/Recomended Reading:
Boyce, Mary (2000). "Zoroastrians: Their Their Religious Beliefs and Practices". Routledge; 2nd edition.
Dahlén, Ashk (transl.) (2023). "Zarathustra: Sånger". h:ström.
Humbach, Helmut & Pallan Ichaporia (transl.) (1994). "The Heritage of Zarathushtra: A New Translation of His Gathas. Universitatsverlag Winter.
Moazami, Mahnaz (ed.) (2016). "Zoroastrianism: A collection of Articles from the Encyclopedia Iranica". ENCYCLOPAEDIA IRANICA FOUNDATION. 2 Volumes.
Rose, Jenny (2019). "Zoroastrianism: An Introduction". I.B. Tauris Introduction to Religions. Bloomsbury Academic.
Strausberg, Michael; & Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (ed.) (2015). "The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism". Wiley-Blackwell.
A second translation of the Gathas:
avesta.org/dastur/Dinshaw_J_Irani_The_Gathas.pdf
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:40 Why make another video?
2:47 Basic overview
5:19 Origins: Zarathusthra & The Gathas
11:05 Zarathushtra's revelation & character
14:40 The Avesta: Zoroastrian scripture
16:30 Teachings of Zoroastrianism
24:47 Eschatology
28:26 Monotheism & Amesha Spentas (Holy Immortals)
32:37 The Yazatas
36:51 Summary of teachings: 'The Avestan Worldview'
38:25 The Spread of Zarathustra's teachings
39:33 The Achaemenid Empire
49:03 The Parthian Empire
51:28 The Sasanian Empire - Canonization & Orthodoxy
1:00:58 Zoroastrians under Islamic Rule
1:07:02 Zoroastrian Practice
1:16:38 Influence on other religions?
1:20:13 Conclusions
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Armenians, before becoming the First Nation to accept Christianity as their national religion in 301 A.D were Zoroastrian as far back as 5th century BC. We still have some Zoroastrian traditions. Ahura Mazda was Aramazd and you can still find the common name Aram in many Armenians. Thanks for this video because I’ve always been interested in learning more
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This is the best, most nuanced, historically and scholarly balanced video on Zoroastrianism out there. Thank you!
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Thus spoke Zarathustra: Good thoughts Good words Good deeds
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I’m Kurdish and I’m Zoroastrian ❤ I am so proud of that is my religion is Persian religion it’s not just a legion. It’s also teaching philosophy and technology. Anything anything you want to be it’s not just a religion is a peaceful religion. Is it Kurdish Persian? We are so proud of that.❤
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I live in california and there is small zoroastrian community here. I messaged one of the centers because I wanted to learn more and everyone is so friendly and patient and excited to tell you about their religion
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It's interesting to contrast Mithraism, usually termed a 'mystery-religion' and Zoroastrianism, which is much more of an ethical philosophy like Buddhism. Persian history rocks! A fun fact: Zarathushti used to make a pilgrimage to Baku in modern-day Azerbaijan because the ground was so saturated with petroleum that flames would spontaneously pop up from the ground in some areas.
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As an Iranian thank you for making this video, even though I'm atheist I always love learning more about Zoroastrianism and even Iranian Paganism.
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Two things you may have forgotten to mention and I feel is relevant is 1) Cyrus the great--a practicing Persian Zoroastrian--liberated the jews from Babylon and is consider a genuine MESSIAH in the Hebrew Bible and Christain old testament. 2) The 3 Magi that visited the infant Jesus were Zoroastrian. Magi is the formal name used for practicing Zoroastrian priests and the term is still used in parts of Iran.
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Thank you for this educational lecture about Zoroastrianism. I listened to your first one too, as l have been involved with Zoroastrianism through my husband, who studied Arabic, African languages, and Middle Eastern religions, and wrote his Thesis about Yazidism, and Zoroastrianism in 1970. At that time the Berlin Umboldt University had extensive books by German scholars about these two ancient religions, which l needed in essence to translate into my husbands language.
“Yazidism is a monotheistic ethnic religion (like Zoroastrianism too) , that has its roots in a western Iranic pre-Zoroastrian religion directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition.” (According to Wikipedia) l could not say it better, nor shorter in English, as it’s not my first language) A Kurdish speaking Yazidi Community is living in Melbourne, Australia till date, and of course they are living in the triangle Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and in small groups in the Middle East till today too, trying to preserve their religious, cultural, language traditions, but have lost lots of it due to the mentioned countries suppressing their believes, rituals, and assimilating them, or punish them like in Turkey. Many Yazidis have been massacred, genocides committed in the Triangle borders. It is a hot topic.
I wished, there would be an episode about Yazidism, and the connection between the two, the similarities, and differences.
Thank you. It’s fascinating to listen to these scholarly lectures. Greetings from Melbourne
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I got chills when you mentioned Artarvakhsha 'Guardians of the Fire' because I'm Potawatomi, which means 'Keepers of the Sacred Fire', and it's really central to the culture!
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I still find it incredibly cool that we can translate and read prayers, stories and other messages that are thousands of years old.
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Awesome! A video on Zoroastrianism is exactly what the world needs. Such a significant and influential religion, interesting as well. Can’t wait!
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I'm 62 years young and have during my life studied, followed a religion, experienced religion, believed in aspects of religion etc and in doing so understand many of the descriptive as explained and the links it has due to the topics history, in this most excellent and unbiased educational masterpiece of a video. It has really provoked me to dig deeper into the great jigsaw of life and it's many associations. Thanks so much for sharing it.
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Thank you. “Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds” - Zarathustra
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I hope that this will be a series about zoroastrianism
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I bumped into Zoroastrianism today when I bought a Persian carpet with the cypress tree being an important symbol to this ancient religion. Had to go look up for more. Thanks for putting together this educational video 👍👍
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I'd love to hear more about the early Iranian religion that Zarathustra was rebelling against. A comparative religion survey of Indo European religion itself would be a major project too.
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I have spent many hours in front of the holy fire at the Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Yazd, before the Revolution, and was able to visit again after.
I also had many Zoroastrian friends when I lived in California.
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I think the real number of Zoroastrians in Iran in much higher: between Isfahan and Shiraz in 2018, I came across dozens of practitioners. Based on what I saw, I would even claim that the number in Iran would go into hundreds of thousands. Even in petrol stations, shops etc they had open fires going and they had these unique posters on the walls which set them clearly apart. I was happy to see that at least they could be open about their traditions, despite the regime. I also stayed in a Zoroastrian hotel which mainly catered for the hundreds of Indian pilgrims. This video has been the first comprehensive account about the religion, and I'm happy to understand my own experiences there a little better (the fire temple did have an introduction, but it didn't help much...). Thank you!
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