Zoroaster
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Zarathushtra Spitama, more commonly known as Zoroaster, was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoro
Modern depiction of Zoroaster featured at the Fire Temple of Yazd
3rd-century Mithraic depiction of Zoroaster found in Dura Europos, Syria by Franz Cumont
19th century painting depicting the events of Zoroaster's life
The rings of the Fravashi
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and published in four v
Zoroaster
…In E. T. A. Hoffmann's novel Klein Zaches, genannt Zinnober (1819), the mage Prosper Alpanus states that Professor Zoroaster was his teacher. In Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1885), considered to be his seminal work, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gives to the central character the native Iranian name "Zarathustra…
Title page of the first three-book edition
Nietzsche wrote in Ecce Homo that the central idea of Zarathustra occurred to him by a "pyramidal block of stone" on the shores of Lake Silvaplana.
Nietzsche's first note on the "eternal recurrence," written "at the beginning of August 1881 in Sils-Maria, 6000 ft above sea level and much higher above all human regards! -" Nachlass, notebook M III 1, p. 53.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Edvard Munch, 1906