Sublime

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.

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

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 :