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Zoroastianism

KennonRude
ProfessorPilowsky
Geog155
27April2015

ZoroastrianismisoneofoldestmonotheisticreligionsinwhichitwasfoundedinAncientIranby
theprophetZoroasteraround3500yearsago.Forroughly1000years,Zoroastrianismwasone
ofthemostpowerfulandinfluentialreligionintheworld.Atonepoint,itwastheofficialreligion
ofPersia(ModerndayIran)fromroughly600B.C.Eto650C.E.Butunfortunately,
Zoroastrianismhasdwindleddowntooneofthesmallestreligionsintheworld.Inastudyin
2006,therewerereportedroughlylessthan200,000followersworldwide,withamajorityofits
practitionersbeinginIndia.InZoroastrianism,thecreator,AhuraMazda,isdeemedasallgood
thingsintheworldandthatnoevilcanpermeateororiginatefromAhuraMazda.Whichmeans
inZoroastrianism,goodandevilhavetwodifferentanddistinctsources.Allevilintheworld
(druj)istryingtodestroyboththecreationofMazdaandallthatisgoodinlife,thatistryingto
sustaintheevil.ThemostimportanttextsofthereligionarethosepertainingtotheAvesta,of
whichasignificantportionhasbeenlostandmostlyonlysmallliturgiesofwhichhavesurvived
overthelastcouplethousandofyears.

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