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Prophet · ◇ Light

Zoroaster

majorattestedc. 2nd–1st millennium BCEZoroastrianism

Founding prophet of Zoroastrianism.

Vision92

Faith90

Wisdom86

Light80

✦Signature powerThe Two SpiritsFirst to name the cosmic war of truth against the lie.

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Its universe

The mythic order Zoroaster belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

Sophiathe voice below the floor
- Enochwho saw the ceiling from above
- Zoroasterwho named the two spirits
- Hermes Trismegistuswho wrote it down anyway
- Mosesand whose voice was in the bush?
- The Archonswho licensed the temples instead

The same idol, across the ages

Scholars have long read Zoroaster as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the founder-prophet.

1300 BCEMosesJudaism 1000 BCEZoroasterZoroastrianism 523 BCEGautama BuddhaBuddhism 601 CEMuhammadIslam

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Voices & connections

Figures bound to Zoroaster, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

Avestaappears in Ahura Mazdaassociated with The Saoshyantassociated with

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Illustrated storyThe War of Light and DarkThe oldest telling of the oldest war: two spirits, one who chose truth and one who chose the Lie, and a universe made as the battlefield between them. Ahura Mazda lays a trap of light; Angra Mainyu charges into it; and the whole of history, three ages, a chosen prophet, a final saviour born from a lake, is the long campaign to a promised morning when death itself is undone. The root of every light-against-dark story that came after.Begin reading →