Zoroastrianism, The Religion of the Ancient World And My Great Grandparents

[Muhammad1999]

The main Symbol of Zoroaster

As we all know, there are many religions out there. Some are human made and others are holy religions. Zoroaster is one of the oldest religions that dates back to 1000 years before
Christianity, and it's the world's oldest monotheistic religion (Worshiping one God).

Its temples are mainly located between Persia and Mesopotamia (nowadays known as Iraq and Iran), but the main fire temple is located in Yazd, Iran. It is considered the most holy temple by Zoroasters .

The main Fire Temple

A lot of Zoroastrians fled to India when Islam gathered power and took over Middle East. 80% of them live in India and only 20% live in Middle East. Zoroastrianism has about 250,000 followers in the world and their number decline every year.

Zoroastrians have several important holy days, such as Nevroz, the birth of Zoroster calendar and Several festivals.

According to Zoroaster calendar it is now year 3750. Zoroaster calendar is 1732 years older than the Christian calendar, and Nevroz is celebrated on March 21. Most nations in Asia celebrate Nevroz and this indicates that Zoroastrianism was once the most spread religion in the world.

The celebrations include dancing and holding each others arms around fire, or jumping on fire during special festivals.

The book of Zoroastrianism is Avesta which contains holy Scripts and Ancient Writings. The original book is currently kept in the Fire Temple.

Important Rules of the Zoroastrianism

There are several laws of the Zoroastrians religion that the followers must obey.

1. No man should touch a woman when she is on her period.

If a man does it, it is considered a sin and that the evil spirits have taken hold of him. It needs complex rituals to clean themselves from evil spirits by using the rituals and spells in the holy book.

2. The Zoroastrian followers should never force someone to obey their religion as it is against peace.

Also hurting people from other religions is considered a big sin.

3. Feeding hot or bad food to animals is considered a big sin.

4. A Zoroaster person should never marry someone from another religion.

5. Murdering and stealing are among the great sins that the followers cannot be forgiven.

6. Having sexual intercourse with a pregnant woman is a sin.

7. Insults are also major sins.
The followers of Zoroaster must avoid cursing.

8. They must believe in Judgement day and afterlife.

9. Belief in Supreme and Universal God.

Ahuramazda is the supreme, omniscient and omnipotent God, who symbolizes truth, radiance, purity, order, justice, courage, strength and patience. He is the creator as well as sustainer. He also protects the good from the evil and maintains order by keeping the chaotic evil at bay.

10. Masturbation is forbidden and also considered a sin.

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Hope you enjoyed reading .

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[Aguysopinion4799]

All sound like fair rules to be honest, is this your religion? If so then I have no issues with it, nothing in it seems extreme or severe or intense <3

Won't lie, the only ones I found inconvenient in this list was the masturbation one but everything else I considered to be rather fair and passive rules <3

Great take dude :)

[Muhammad1999]

thanks buddy <3 :)

[Aguysopinion4799]

No problem :)

[Aguysopinion4799]

Cheers dude :)

[NewtoTheSouth]

Do you believe in a judgement day, like Zoroastrians, Christians and Muslims?

[Aguysopinion4799]

@NewtoTheSouth Not personally no but I don't judge others for believing in it <3

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thank you for sharing with us , very well written MyTake of yours :) :)

[Muhammad1999]

thanks sir :)

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

You're Welcome :)

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thank You For MHO :)

[ChocolateCheesecake]

Interesting

[ChocolateCheesecake]

Lmao thanks

[Secretgardenblood]

Great take

[Muhammad1999]

<3 <3 <3

[Secretgardenblood]

❤❤❤ <3

[jennifer_bloom]

I took two courses on Zoroastrianism in University and I loved it! It's a fascinating faith! It's too bad that because of the wars by other religions that they lost a lot of their language and culture. My zoroastrian professor was a genius! I think he understood some Avestan!

[Anonymous]

Its basic maxims include:
(specially this one:

Humata, Hukhta, Huvarshta, which mean: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.

There is only one path and that is the path of Truth.
Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do, and then all beneficial rewards will come to you also.

[Muhammad1999]

Great , didn't know that a lot of people know about this religion

[Opinion Owner]

I have a Persian friend. That's how I heard about it. She was telling me about her trip to the city of Yazd and she mentioned their temple, and I got a bit curious.
She also said that lots of Persians who were originally Zoroastrians, are now returning to it after they were forced into Islam, which also happened to fail them.

[octopusrebellion]

Awesome! Worked on a project where we dug deep into Zoroastrian texts / imagery for inspiration and it was amazing. So many seeds of it in modern systems. And apparently it's experiencing a global resurgence of sorts.

[Amerasian]

I visited the Zoroastrian Center of Southern California 2 years ago and found this excerpt from the Gathas on their temple. I think you'll like it:

"May we be among those who make this life new. You who are wise, and you who bring happiness through truth and precision, come, let us be single-minded and one accord with an inner intellect that has one goal - a new world."
- Zarathustra

[Anonymous]

Dude, you should mention I think it had influence on Queen. I didn't think much about it until I saw Bohemian Rhapsody. People around the world love queen. It's also an interesting belief tbh.

[ZoeAdams2]

Freddie Mercury had Persian background and was a Zoroastrian

[Opinion Owner]

@ZoeAdams2 Thought so. From what I know, Zoroastrian beliefs are not too well known so an influencer to point to can help.

[HereIbe]

MOST nations in ASIA celebrate Nevroz? CHINA celebrates Nevroz? JAPAN celebrates Nevros? NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAS celebrate Nevroz? PAKISTAN celebrates Nevroz? I can keep going on and on with this list, if you like? Sounds like you've been spoon fed some serious bullshit propaganda.

[Phanta]

Those rules trap men into being forced to have no sexual outlet for most of the time, which is nonsense. And there are many better rules which should be in place that would work to make a great society. I'm glad that the religion is dying.

[Anonymous]

your grandparents are probably in hell
for going to satanism
I hope they changed their mind at the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEBkmRQpG0

[Opinion Owner]

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[OnlyYouKnowThat]

I like rules 2, 5 and 7. If everybody in the world followed those three rules then we would probably have world peace.

[Anon-ymous1]

"Some are human-made and others are holy religions." Um... what? What is this quote supposed to mean? All religions are man-made. What are you talking about.

[Muhammad1999]

For you it's like that

[Anon-ymous1]

Um... what? There's no "for you." A fact is a fact regardless of who it's affecting. I don't know what you mean.

[mattdzz]

That's not a question, just a summary of a dead religion. Who cares?

[esotericstory]

Also it was the world's original monotheistic faith from which Judaism, Christianity and Islam stem.

[Arne123123]

You seem to think it's more valid becouse it's older then the currently bigger religions? Don't see how it's any less bullshit the the other most likely made up once.

[Anonymous]

As the Zoroastrians found out Islam is a religion of peace.

[Shah214]

Very Interesting article, except it is miss representing a very important fact. There is no such thing as sin in this religion. only errors. Sin is a concept in other so called religions.

[milesgeorgedavis]

Are you a communist? A communist wrote a mytake about Zoroastrianism? I think I'm in love.

[SuccessfulHornDog]

Way too many issues with the rules