Biggest Christmas downgrade is changing the Zoroastrian Magi or fire priests into three wise men / three kings.

I think Persian high priests using astrological signs to locate the birth of a new messiah just goes so hard. Really hope that shit actually happened.

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May Bahram Yazad bring the people of Iran victory, and glory these three days.

Yesterday was Varaham day which is an important day in the Zoroastrian calendar(s). Such a day for striking coincides with the divine grace of victory on Bahram day.

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Angra Mainyu

Fittingly because he’s not the ‘real’ Angra Mainyu, Angra Mainyu itself was not originally a person, but a concept in Zoroastrianism where it effectively means “destructive mind”. The concept later solidified as a malevolent deity, the proto-Satan concept.

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Daeva, Zoroastrian supernatural entity

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This is not a straightforward Alexander biography -- it's about how we've perceived him as a historical figure AND literary character since 300 CE: a hero in the cultures he encountered and the faiths (Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Zoroastrian) that follow.

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In Zoroastrian myth, Ahura Mazda, who was the god of light,smelled wonderful, but Ahriman his evil equivalent, smelled like a garlic bulb, 'fetid and rotten.'

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Topics we're currently soliciting pitches for: lost/undiscovered continents (Atlantis, Lemuria, Hyperborea), cryptids, extinct or vanishing religious systems (Gnosticism, Zoroastrianism), ancient armies.

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The Vaeyen of Vociferousness. The Warranter of Weaklings. The Xenophobe of Xenogeny. The Youkai of Yesteryear. The Zhar of Zoroastrianism.

NADESHIKO THE GIRL
NADESHIKO THE YOUKAI

ENTER NADECAMA


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Ahriman is an Iranian demon god of Zoroastrianism,

Kazuma Kaneko's design in Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne is reminiscent to me of Chinese Taotie bronze found in 100BCE China. Many of them are door knockers 铺首

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2016 Delhi Exhibition catalogue "Everlasting Flame: in History and Imagination" long-time unavailable but now online at https://t.co/jjL4O2mwuE thanks to

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Whether Christian, Jewish, a brother or sister of Islam; a Hindu, Buddhist; should you follow Daoism, Zoroastrianism, Orthodox; be of the Mormon faith; a Pagan, Shintō, Sikh; if Wicca be your thing, or not believe, may the season find you blessed🙏

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270 Evil Demon Level48 Kunda

A Zoroastrian demon.
He dwells at the entrance to hell and is always drunk, even though he has not been drinking Haoma liquor.

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👑🇹🇿👨🏻
Just spent a lovely hour with Anam, manager of the She kindly took me to visit the old Agiyari Zoroastrian Temple where Freddie and his family used to worship!
(Pic.4 from web for context)


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World in proportion to Zoroastrian population. https://t.co/xk1bkvrXuN

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never forget that Edelgard is an atheist and Claude is agnostic, if not fantasy Zoroastrian

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Colourful verse dividers in this manuscript copy of the Zoroastrian Yasna sadeh (Mss 17)

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This important project in Yazd, Iran will preserve recently discovered manuscripts in including what may be the oldest Videvdād so far discovered (EAP1014): https://t.co/0rEnkY9MLl

Follow for updates on the online digital archive.

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or Tshirts on Amazon at https://t.co/m0Rr3C4I9B
Zarathustra 1500-1000 BC, a mysterious sage, mystic, alchemist, magician, & miracle worker who initiated the first monotheistic religion or Nietzsche wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

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