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Avestan Iranian was the language of the Avesta, the holiest text of Zorastrianism. The oldest parts of the Avesta, the Gathas, probably were composed by Zoroaster (the Greek form of the name) or by Zarathustra (the original Iranian form) himself. Zarathustra was a religious reformer who lived in eastern Iran, judging from the places he named, proba
... See moreDavid W. Anthony • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
Zoroastre est obnubilé par la gloire d’Ahura Mazda et de son panthéon, et décidé à en finir avec le ritualisme excessif de la religion de son époque, qu’il considère être une fausse religion. Sa position puriste semble toutefois intenable :
Frédéric Lenoir • Petit traité d'histoire des religions (Hors collection) (French Edition)
This, however, was the same fool whom the people called “Zarathustra’s ape”: for he had gathered something of his phrasing and cadences and also liked to borrow from the treasures of his wisdom.
Friedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
who is Zar?

Comme le bouddhisme, comme plus tard le christianisme puis l’islam, le zoroastrisme conquiert les masses grâce à la conversion des rois, laquelle s’opère ici volontiers à travers les guerres, Ahura Mazda étant un Dieu guerrier, au nom du Bien.