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Zoroastrianism was first preached as the Stone Age yielded to the Bronze, among Iranian tribes on the Inner Asian steppes. Later it became the faith of three great Iranian empires and exerted a strong influence on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. After the Arab conquest it was replaced as the State religion of Iran by Islam but survives there as a minority faith, and is adhered to also by the Parsis of India. This anthology contains selections which...
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A journey through time and across Europe and Central Asia, in search of the prophet Zarathustra (a.k.a. Zoroaster)--perhaps the greatest religious lawgiver of the ancient world--and his vast influence. In Persia more than three thousand years ago, Zarathustra spoke of a single universal god, the battle between good and evil, the devil, heaven and hell, and an eventual end to the world--foreshadowing the core beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam....
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Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. Includes historial notes.
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