ZOROASTRIANISM

We truly do not know when and where Prophet
Zoroaster was born or when King Vishtāspa, the first
ruler to grant royal patronage ruled the ancient
Chorasmia Federation. Whatever recorded history
might have been was destroyed when Alexander and
his men set fire to Darius’ Palace in Persepolis and
later more with the passage of time. We depend now
on Greek sources which dates Zoroaster as far back
to 7500 B.C.E. or legends which dates it to about 600
B.C.E. The language of the Gāthās is difficult to
interpret. To date we have 26 major translations and
they all interpret it differently. This suggests that
writing a brief history, will not be an easy task. Books
on religion can be divided in to two categories. For
the academic community and for the faith
community. This little book is not for the academic
community. Simply put it is for the lay person, the
faith community, is in less than 100 readable pages
and under the prevailing circumstances as
authoritative as it can be.