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Zarathustra and the promise of an eternal spring of the Immortals
The ancient Aryan Prophet Zarathûštrá was born on the 6th day after the Spring Vernal Equinox. In the Avestan calendar the 6th day of each month is dedicated to the god-force of “health, hail and every...
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The Siberian Ice Maiden and the Zoroastrian Maternal lineage
The Siberian Ice Maiden Devochka is a mummy of a young Scythian woman from the 5th century BCE, found in 1993 in a kurgan of the Pazyryk culture in Republic of Altai, Russia. The mummified remains of...
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The Sarmatians. Ancient Zoroastrians, Haplogroup I and the Croat Origins
The Iranian and/or the Iranian-Caucasian origin theory of Croats and Serbs date back to the 1797. It was the doctoral dissertation of Josip Mikoczy-Blumenthal. With this work he became the founder of...
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Vah or Vahmæ, sacred awe of inspiring creativity, cosmos and the life force
The common Avestan term for the sacred is speñtá “sacred, auspicious, splendid with the life force” corresponding to svętŭ in Slavic. Another term in the Avestan that has to do with the sacred and...
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Cosmic order and the concept of Sin in the poetic gathas
Zoroastrian religiosity is not slavery to a despotic god. It contains none of the commandments of a downtrodden slave to his all-powerful lord. Zoroastrian jurisprudence and morality comprises rather...
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Maiδyö.zarem or the MID SPRING festival
April 30th marks the beginning of the maiδyö.zarem “mid-spring” festival in the Avestan calendar. It lasts for 5 days till May4th and is in essence a spring fertility ritual. Maiδyö is the Avestan...
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The Zoroastrian god of combat/victory, Vərəθra.ghna, Vahrám or Bahram
Vərəθra ghna is the great warrior god of Zoroastrianism and one of the principal figures in the Zoroastrian pantheon. In traditional Zoroastrianism, vərəθra.ghna is the MOST BELOVED of all the...
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SRAOŠA, Soroush “harkening to the songs/music of the Immortal Gods”
Sraôšá is a major yazata “adorable god-power” in Zoroastrianism. It comes about 8 times in the poetic gathas, and like all the other Immortals, appears both as an “abstraction/virtue” as well as an...
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Zoroastrianism, sacred fire and fire-worship
The terms “Fire Worship” and “Fire-Worshippers” were always associated with Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians throughout history. The notion of fire worship goes back to reverence for “hearth fire” among...
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The principle of action and the impulse of health/vitality in Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism is a faith based on the principle of vigorous activity called šiiaöθaná in the Avetsan. Šiiaöθaná is the dynamism of action/motion, the transfiguration of thought into form, the...
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Sirius, the Orion belt and the Avestan Tri-star, Tištar
During maiðiiö-šam “mid-summer” celebrations, circa two weeks after summer solstice, the festival of ti.štr.iiá or tristar is observed in the Avestan calendar. Ti.štr.iiá is the brightest and most...
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Avestan Airyaman, Irmin-got as a name of Odin and the Irish Éremón
The poetic gathas start with the most sacred ahü vair.iiö formula the “will to become godlike” and conclude with airyémá iš.iiö, the “noble, lofty ideal ” literally the “Aryan wish, desire,...
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Immortality and the eternal quest for excellence
In the ancient Indo-European thought and speech there are 2 races, the race of the Immortal Gods, the heavenly celestials, and the race of mortals or the earthlings. The gods are heavenly and the...
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Avestan Druj “distortion, devastation, lie,” Old Persian Drauga, and Old...
In Zoroastrianism, the ahûrás are regarded as “eternal quest for excellence,” embodied in the superb artistry of the cosmic order. The connecting link between Immortal Gods and men is ašá/arthá...
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The CHARIOT of TIME in the poetic gathas of Zarathustra, and Yasna 44.17
The idea that within infinite time, an finite number of events, will recur again and again infinitely, is predominant in all Indo-European religions. There is a notion that time is composed of cycles,...
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Moslem designation of the Vikings as Majus or heathen Zoroastrians, and the...
Moslem voyagers, traders, and theologians from the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties/caliphates, came into contact with the Vikings during their visits to trading centers such as Kiev and Novgorod, part of...
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Zoroastrianism, and the idea of a future body obtaining all its energy from...
Recently I came across a quote from Nikola Tesla stating: “My idea is that the development of life must lead to forms of existence that will be possible without nourishment and which will not be...
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Earliest reference to the chief god of Zoroastrianism, the god of ménos...
The earliest reference to Ahûrá Mazdá in ancient records appears to be in an Assyrian text, probably of the 8th century B.C.E, in which Assara Mazaš, is named in a list of Indo European gods. The list...
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From friendship with the Immortal Gods to the stewardship of the entire...
In the Avestan calendar, the first month of autumn is named after Mithrá “friendship with the Immortal Gods. Ahûrá Mazdá, the supreme god of Zoroastrianism, is not a tyrannical despot or a jealous God,...
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Zoroaster’s Light, German Philosopher Hegel, and the true legacy of the...
The Indo-European Imperial power and influence entered the stage of world history with Cyrus, the Great Persian Emperor of the Achaemenid dynasty. Cyrus ruled from 559 to 529 B.C.E, and founded the...
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