The Religion that Shaped Ancient Iran 

Leandros Keep up the good music!

It is because of the ancient adversarial issue between the two, I suppose! Isnt it? We, Iranians, love Greek stuff very much though! We think, ancient Greeks took the philosophy (Philosophy = love of Wisdom) from the concept of Ahura Mazda (Lord of Wisdon, can you see how close they are to each other), the god of Zarathustra, and developed it further. Not to mention the music, art and architecture! ;)

well zionist love to made up historical events to show themselves better and try to convince they are much more civilized than iranians ! but its totaly wrong all thing everyone need is experince and more learning !

He was born in BAKHTARIA (Afghanistan), the land of sunshine, go and learn about Afghanistan

@@sayedmostafaebrahimi6445 no son you are wrong zoroaster birth place is unknown but mostly said is azarabadgan (north west of iran) is place zoroaster was born ! so dont try to stolen our identfy! you aghans refugees must stop stolen our identfy !

jald hamara khalistan banegaa hindu ke ghulami naal azadi melagee

@@valku485 Get the hell out of here you pakistani Isi agnet Who support Khalistan no one literally no I am sikh I dont even Support this a little bit

Yeah , I'm from gujarat and the impact of zoroastrian culture can be seen here ! They came at bharuch coast of gujarat after the islamic invasion of iran .

@@valku485 hate spreading bot spotted

@@valku485 it's been 2 years already where is your Khalistan?

@@noname13years62 Brother can you hate Our former president A P J Abdul Kalam just because he was a Muslim.our great philosophy didn't teach us hate and we should carry the customs also.yes i believe that some extremest tried to harm our nation and may be still now they are trying to do so.and i firmly believe that we will surely overcome it unitedly no matter how many times they want to harm our nation but the truth is we can't blame every single person from a particular community for the deeds of a few. because we are the national of unity in diversity.

@@bohemiansoul1496 I respect APJ , he was the same Muslim that these fucking Jihadis wrote fatwa against just because he was proud of this lands history and its religions and various ideas he was practically an atheist .. Don't clump him with these fuckers i say it again.

Yet they kill Muslims, am not fan of Islam but speak the truth man

Zoroastrians are tolerant thus they never receive any hate in India because of the respect they pay to the Indian culture but Muslims and Christians on other hand doesn't like other faiths so they are build intolerant since childhood, there are riots all the time across India between the Hindus and Muslims this is because the Hindus have noticed that Muslims doesn't respect the Indian culture and try to force Islamic traditions in Indian society. Hindus accept people of all sorts but expects them to respect the indigenous culture of the country too.

@@bohemiansoul1496 not muslims

we call him Zardusht in Uzbekistan, but tree doesnt live 4000 yeara))

by the way zoroastriansim started in khwrezim in Uzbekistan in our country

Gayrat Murtazaev Historians have place Zoroaster’s birthplace in Azarbaijan province of Iran. Azarbaijan/Azarpaygan in Persian literary means Azar for Fire and paygan for Protector hence ‘Protector of Fire’.

@@Ishi79 Dont forget that Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, never existed and was based on Horus as well.

@@Ishi79 I wonder why didn't you name Prophet Mohamad as a copy of egyptian gods because his book has many similiar stories to those before him

​@@loolool963you all neeed to return back to your old own religion bro it will prosper you.❤😊

Zoroastrian from Iran I left Islam going back to my roots

Furthermore, it even declared slavery repulsive and brought the first human rights.

@@hyperion3145 agree zoroastrians never force other tribes or civilization to do what they want

@ABCD EFGH Everything ends (with no exception). That does not make them shit, as you suggest. Besides, Zarathustra's message survived through Sufism. So it did not end as you wished.

@ABCD EFGH My focus is on Zara, not any other person. Well he might scream. But it is just because he is not well educated. But if you read the most prominent works of Sufis like Hafiz, Rumi, Saadi, and many other great Persian Poets, You will see it yourself. Even the name Baghdad (the main center of Sufis, for 2-3 centuries after Islamic Invasion) has a mithraic and Zoroastrian origin.

@@hyperion3145 No. Cyrus was not Zoroastrian.

There would be ✌️ ☮️ 🕊 peace.

Just like Judaism influenced christianity and Islam was influenced by both Judaism and Christianity. And probably other religions too.

Respect for you from iran ✋

Let's not also forget Isrealites descended from the Cannanites and the Jewish El is the same Cananite El Elyon. This decent is also why Hebrew is considered a Cannanite language. Old Hebrew is also indistinguishable from the ancient language of Cannan.

both influenced each other. yahwah can mean "i am what i am" "i is what is" "it is what it is" "i exist what exists" you can also replace the word "what with that" so "i am that i am" "i is that is" "i exist that exists" yahway is also elohim " El mean the top, best, greatest," the "im" at the end of the word elohim is a suffix added at the end of the word to represent everything that can ever fit in that catagory. "yahweh represents the greatest it is what it is the that that can possibly exist in all categories that is in reality" thus no one cay truly see yahweh say yahwehs name because he is infinite transcendent mystery of the truth, that is infinatly discovered and built on but can never fully be understood. people can only understand aspect of Yahweh. old hebrew is expressed concepts and symbolism with each symbol having a concept so the limited scrolls written can pack more wisdom. then the jews got sent into exile into babylon, this is when zoraastura mythology got attached to yahweh. this is when you get the Book of Job and Jonah and now yahweh has a mythology when he didn't really before. before then yahweh was the writing on the wall. the invisible truth that was obvious, the reality of the situation. during the exile that is when kabbalah sect of jews started this is when you start getting mythology,magic, demonology, angelology and additions to the old hebrew books. now soloman was a powerful wizard who had to trap the king of demons to find a glowing sandworm to carve his temple. adam had lilith as his first wife who created demons. and stories of magic users and such. and then yahwey became like the other gods when he was different, in concept in the first place. in proverbs Solomon worshiped the older traditional version of yahweh.

@@stevenmike1878 I think you are a bit mistaken. Israel is an ethnic group that splintered off of the larger Canaanite peoples. This is why Hebrew is a part of the Canaanite language group and old Hebrew is indistinguishable from a Canaanite dialect. The god called El Elyon in the bible is the same El Elyon of the older Canaanite Pantheon. The Elohim are the "Children of El". They are the other gods in the Canaanite Pantheon and the offspring of El and his wife Asherah. When the Babylonians enslaved Israel they were still polytheistic and worshiped El and his Elohim. But inspired by the Zoroastrians, they stopped worshiping the larger pantheon and started to worship El exclusively. Later, El who started as a storm/sky god got merged/syncretized with the Edomite/Midianite storm/sky god Yahweh. This is why their are two traditions in the bible the older Elohist tradition and the later Yahwist Tradition. Also names in the bible transitioned from ending in El like Daniel to ending in Jah, like Elijah. Zoroastrian mythology didn't have to influence Israel much because their religions were similar already. Canaanite deities had wings and the Elohim became the angels in Judaism to mimic the angel like beings in Zoroastrianism. In older middle eastern mythology some Gods fathered their mythological heroes like Gilgamesh. These heroes "or men of great renown" aka "giants" became the Nephilim in the bible and it is said they are the children of fallen angels. aka the Elohim. Some Elohim like Baal Hadad were the patron gods of Israel's enemies, so they were later demonized as a fallen angel. Baal Hadad became Beelzebub for instance.

Kirsten Whitworth A very fascinating and ancient religion for sure

zoroaster never existed. jesus, krishna, zoroaster, mithra.. all of them are copy of the egyptian god horus. a bad copy written by jews..

@@Ishi79 keep quiet you stupid moron zoroastrianism influenced all abrahamic religions and zoroastrianism ia worlds oldest monotheistic religion zoroaster existed he lives in iran

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@@Ishi79 that religion died out

I think Zoroastrianism is very fascinating and I definitely see myself making more videos on it at a later date. I think they share a uniquely strong culture and history like other religious minorities such as Roma, Jews, Copts, etc. Glad you were an early sub, you guys were the ones that really push me to keep going. You should come to the discord! I’m often pretty active and release art and general progress on my videos there (more often than community posts)

I really believe that Zoroaster was the one who the Abrahamic religious books call "Abraham" is that possible?

Living Ash Tree Now that would be a conspiracy wouldn’t it? No, Abraham was likely from the Sumerian city states roughly 1,000 years before Zoroaster was alive, whilst Zoroaster was from Bactria no later that about 1300 BCE. Also nothing else would really fit it aside from the monotheistic Prophet thing

@@ArchaiaHistoria The Kings from the East (i.e. the "three kings" of Christmas) must have been intended to be Zoroastrian. The Greeks had thought them great astrologers, if I recall correctly, which is why the Biblical account has them following a star to Bethlehem. Additionally, there are tons of other connections between Christianity and Zoroastrianism, such as Zoroaster's virgin birth in later Zoroastrian tradition, etc. Anyway, that's my impression.

@@TheAnachronist The Magi were very important people in the ancient world, but we know little about them.

Take note that Esther’s name in ancient Persian means the morning star which is symbol of Mitra and other deities of Susa (Capital of Persia at the time)

Anshan is a place in the Province of Persia, where the Achaemenids originated from

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Gatha (hymns) isn't pronounced as "Gyatha" like the narrator has been pronouncing it, it's called "Gatha" as in "Gah" and "tha" is an Sanskrit term used for stories told in poetic form.

Anshan was a Iran’s province where Cyrus the great and his father Cambyses I would rule on.

Anshan is the name of where the Persians first settled and became civilized.

Yes

Frredi Mercury was a zorastrian, also an iranian from India.

@@hamid.r.salehi He was parsi not Iranian national

Yes Freddie was Pharsi born in the Island of Zanzibar, East Africa before migrated to UK, STILL IN ZANZIBAR HIS LEGENCY SURVIVE, with a famous Restaurant Named Mercury...

He was a parsi

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Cheers! I actually made this for my world religion class and barely anyone had heard of the religion whatsoever.

​@@ArchaiaHistoriaIranian needs to return back to their own zoroastrian religion. ❤

You should sub over to Leander’s channel to show him some love!

Respect for you from iran ✋

@@Ishi79 ok good to know. 👌 Edit: this is Sarcasm.

@@Ishi79 nope .....

@@akashkundu6811 ignorance is bliss.. I can guarantee that you don't have readed mr Ignor M Diakonoff book.. In the start of his book, he says "I have not any proof if the median existed or not" and still he writes 800 long sides about them.

@@Ishi79 I am a Hindu...and I and every Hindu loves zoarastrians very much and we have been protecting them from many years..... Nope meant that all of the God's"especially Krishna"...are not copied....that's my thing.... You can't blame other religion unless u know it well

we should go back to having iran and its surroundings being persia, the shahs were amazing

So sad.

I think you also get rice bag

zoroaster never existed. jesus, krishna, zoroaster, mithra.. all of them are copy of the egyptian god horus. a bad copy written by jews..

@@Ishi79 ... Hei, why the hell you are playing yourself like a scratchy gramophone record?

@@Ishi79 whatever man 😂😂😂

@@navidvarzeghani2789 You don't have a language, but you have had an imaginary Empire..🤣🤣🤣

@@navidvarzeghani2789 This fake zoroaster religion was made under 100 years ago by (Ebrahim Pourdavoud) in East Indian Companies.

Thanks

No ..am a mauritian...indian origine....its a small island name mauritius found in indian ocean...i belived in truth..whatever religion u r...first be a human...thnk u ...keep it.up..

@Parth Kaushik Lol too bad now iskcon is doing it😂😂

@Parth Kaushik I also never heard of untouchability in islam and Christianity You know how krishna says humans are divided by caste in Bhagwat Geeta And a lower caste are slaves for the upper caste😂😂 Not a fan of abrahmic religion too

@@BruceWayne-ls7nr There is not even a mention of Caste in Hinduism unlike is Islam with Shia, Sunni etc. Its the society who created this divide. FYI.

@@glleeren7276 Lol Brahmin are from Brahma head Shudras from Brahma legs And untouchables from shudra legs Shia and Sunni are sects Much like saivite is a sect and vaishnavite is a sect The society that follows Hinduism created it based on the manusmriti Isn't what hinduism is a way of life 😂😂 And society is a macrorgsm of it

zoroaster never existed. jesus, krishna, zoroaster, mithra.. all of them are copy of the egyptian god horus. a bad copy written by jews..

ok

@Kate Kaur Ask those followers how long their family have been zoroastrian? I can guarantee that, their grandparents and older generation, none of them knew about this fake religion.

Than you I appreciate that comment

Lol There is no such kind of stories in Hinduism

What are you saying? You’re not being very clear…. If you’re trying to say that Zoroaster or Zoroastrianism started in India or with Hinduism: you’re 100% wrong. Zoroaster was an actual Iranian person who lived, and with the arrival of the Persian Empire under the Cyrus the Great and the Achaemenids, Zoroastrianism became the official state religion. And with that, the rest of the Middle East became monotheistic, too.

@@MaryamofShomal Zoroastrianism borrowed some Hindu concepts and reversed it Zoroastrians worship Ahura(god of Zoroastrianism) but Ahura is Asura in Hinduism which means demon. Deva in Zoroastrianism means Demon but Deva in Hinduism is God

thank you for this great information 👍

I never left 😉

@@ArchaiaHistoria obviously but you didn't make vids for a while. Btw, would you like to check out Micahistory 2?

@@ArchaiaHistoria please make a video on persis in India.

Reject no wisdom by it's origin. Humans span far and wide living thinking experiencing things you have not. Knowing things you will never know. Believe and follow whatever religion you like. But you should be learning from other cultures if only for the reason of understanding them on a human level. Too carry yourself with grace among all people as a shinning example of whatever your faith

@@johncollins211 i won't reject wisdom by its origin, that's not what i wish for my People, what's good remains good even if it's foreign and the foreign is now in shambles. But without an strong foundation the house you're trying to build will inevitably collapse in on itself........we learn that there needs to be a fixed structure and identity to a people so that we all can flourish, for that strong foundation to be able of being rebuild in the first place we need to concentrate our efforts on our identity first and foremost. (With all that being said, the philosophies and the ideas that sprung out from the "modern" age aren't profound at all and should be scrapped entirely)

There’s plenty of Iranians living in the USA who still practice these religions, California even has a fire temple since they have a huge Persian community.

zoroaster never existed. jesus, krishna, zoroaster, mithra.. all of them are copy of the egyptian god horus. a bad copy written by jews..

@@Ishi79 than why lord Krishna lost city found in underwater ( as written in text ) and carbon date of ornaments back to 9000 year old

@@Ishi79 I bet you believe that there are aliens at Area 51 as well. People like you really need to 1) get laid 2) go back to school at get a real education. 3) stay off of social media and stop displaying your stupidity to the whole world😢

@@greaterbharat4175 I can buy 9000 year old carbon-14 dated papers and write fairy tales on it, it doesn't mean this is 9000 years old history.

@@skepticscircle1497 Brainwashed shithead, you think you are educated just because you repeat BS from corrupted history books like a parrot?

Now Armenia is a fascinating place! Probably one of the most continuously inhabited place in the world and fiercely independent. Even under the Achaemenids they were not a satrapy but a tributary, however Achaemenid law didn’t stretch over there (look at the Anabasis)

Christianity isnt even your religion lol

Suren Kalantarian lmao dude Christianity wasn’t even around during that time! and even Christianity was brought by Saint gregor a Persian Parthian nobility

Dude, chirstianity is a shitty plagiarized version of our ancient beliefs and polytheistic deities, force-fed to us by trying to destroy our old better ways of life. Stop clinging to christianity as if it were something to be proud of. Our history goes waaaaay back before christianity even took shape.

@@ArchaiaHistoria "Even under the Achaemenids they were not a satrapy but a tributary,": What do you mean exactly by that? Because Armenia was a Satrapy in Achaemenids' time. And a Zoroastrian one too.

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Thanks, there always seems to be a misspelling that sneaks in

You Christian?

@@tesmith47 I don't feel comfortable answering that question, sorry.

@Pakistani item If it's so important. Christian's from Eritrea and Ethiopia are called "Oriental Orthodox" Christian's. Our form of the faith is very similar to the Greek Orthodox Christian's and the Russian Orthodox Christian's. If you google image search "Eritrea Christian." You will see our practice of the faith is the same in image as the other Orthdox Christian's. Being raised in America. Our form of church is very different from the churches that established here in America. Both white people and black people are mostly a denomination of the faith that stemmed from the Protestants and also the Lutherans. Those are English and German Christian's who exisist because of the corruption of the Catholic church. Let's just say I never talk about religion here in America. It's funny when Easter comes around. Orthodox Christians follow the old calendar. Protestants and faiths similar follow the Gregorian calendar. I acknowledge two weeks each year is what I'm saying. The calendars make Easter one week apart from one another. It's a good thing I'm studying to become a high school geography teacher. I should probably know this stuff, lol.

I asked because I wonder about why AFRICANS became Christian or muslim, your post sounded like a Christian. . Neither have served Africa very well. For the record, I don't believe any of the stories, I am atheist.

@@tesmith47 look at the world map. Look at where Eritrea and Ethiopia are. Look where Isreal is. We're not very far from there. Everyone around us is Muslim. Our area of the continent has always stuck with our faith. Nothing works out too well for anyone or any people in the world. All the bad things only happen at different times in history to one place or another. And I never said I believed. I said what faith I was brought up in. Weather the stories of a particular place are true or not. The oral communication to pass from one generation to the next had to exist. I enjoy reading, watching and learning about all places in the world. Fire wasnt discovered by man on this continent but not the next. I could have worse hobbies. Ya dig?

NothingToo Spiffy Thanks man, I’m just glad people understand what I’m saying since half the time I think it sounds like one giant word. Hopefully it gets even better when I get a new mic for my bday

@@ArchaiaHistoria you should start a patreon and I will donate to your channel and you know that I've been here since you just had a few subscribers I'm one of your loyal fans but I'm still waiting on that Philip II video LOL

NothingToo Spiffy I think you and Assorted munchies have been the most loyal and oldest fans. However you’ve been here since the r/badhistory days right? Anyway, come down to the discord mate it would be good for you to be more in the loop and you can see what I’m up to more often!

@@ArchaiaHistoria will do

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A long time

@@ArchaiaHistoria I'M asking cause I also wanted to start making my own RU-vid videos that are heavily edited like yours... Do you do all the art as well from scratch?

Yeah I do all the drawings myself however I usually base them on stock images so it’s not all from scratch. If you’re interested in how I make the art I do art streams on the discord from time to time discord.gg/kwve5Y

English is my language and I think that your English, is excellent.

@HanselManCan Your source?

Hello vik, how come i saw you every where, thats waasaap😄

You know it!

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Zoroastrianism is monotheist it has no similarity with polytheists Hinduism

U r absolutely right.

@AJtheory That's in Mahabharat

tell me what happened, were they hindus before zorastrianism

@@dead34311 half of rugved is same as avasta and both are written same time period

@@krushnaji4940 lol wanna debate live

@@krushnaji4940 no rigveda is older than Jennifer avesta

@@user-pf4tn2rl9n So it's a coincidence? Or did the Greeks misinterpret the name as referring to stars?

@@user-pf4tn2rl9n Thanks.

They had they're own polytheistic beliefs not much text left so we might never know just like the 5 hundred year old burnt city discovered in iran it had pipe laying for water and a sewer system, they've found jewellery and gold inside of graves but no one knows who those people were, or what happneed they just got buried in time

@@vivanghat thank you

There will believe for some what like mixture of Greek Hindu believes. There believe derived from Aryan monotheistic cultures with some politism mix

I was a bit strapped for time but about Judaism and Zoroastrianism, I was trying to say how Jewish texts (i.e: Isaiah and Ester) had Zoroastrianism symbolism and structure. Isaiah in particular, which I didn’t cover, shares a lot with the Zoroastrian doomsday/rapture in how it talks about reckoning and ultimate prosperity for the Jews. There is also much more to go on about similarities between Jewish and Zoroastrian eschatology and angelology that I couldn’t get into. As for Moses, well being a Jew I would have to say that Moses is very much the pillar of Jews as a people than as a family (descendants of the patriarchs). From Moshe we gain the Torah and Zion, which are cornerstones of Judaism. Lastly I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Seems like many people didn’t know much or anything about Zoroastrianism, so it’s good to give light to an unknown topic for most. However I think I’ll be sticking more with history topics than theology as it does get very tricky and controversial.

Thanks for the

I’m just happy people enjoy the videos. I do get what you’re saying but really it does still work for my point of a singular prophet that defined a religion. As for further reading check out the description I tend to put all my sources there. Best of luck.

Tnx

Zorastor story is older, seems that judo Christian storyis a amalgamation of different stories from all the big older cultures including Egypt.

That's what we wish we are persian . 70 percentage of persian want to be zorotzrim

@@peace7706 go and begin worship them in your home teach your children and family

Not exactly prevailing right now, is it?!

@@dunruden9720 We've always been able to pick ourselves back up in the past. I believe goodness is as deeply embedded into humanity just as much as selfishness is

yeah, but he could've used the persian depictions of mohammed as a veiled prophet

@@leopoldopetrieska6564 its still funny either way. Apparently, Islam does not like middle men. Its either worship Allah or nobody else. Never mind the one man who brought Islam towards the middle east and lo & behold, its one of the most common names in the world for males.

Took me a minute to get it lol

@Abidjanaise Theologically it is forbidden to depict any of the prophets, but practically speaking there are many Muslims that don't seem to mind using depictions of Jesus or Moses. That is at least my experience. Additionally, Muslims are usually only outraged by depictions of Muhammad, and not by depictions of other prophets. There are plenty of mocking depictions of Jesus, and even of God himself (both primarily by atheists), and yet outrage seems to only happen when it is Mubammad that is being depicted or mocked. I agree with you that Islam teaches not to depict any of the prophets, but it does seem that most Muslims don't take it very seriously unless it is about Muhammad or specifically the Muslim understanding of God.

@@Menzobarrenza u can ask any muslim, he'll mind if any prophet is depicted

awesomedude00001 Aktually... There is no evidence of Cyrus as an Achaemenid at all (at least in the Cyrus Cyclinder) but rather only Darius claims lineage (Bihustan Inscriptions) to an Achaemenis, a mythical founder of the family.

Archaia Istoria so I’ve seen writing that he is are you saying that Darius might have connected him and Cyrus to the the same family after the fact as a bit of propaganda?

Nathan Oliver Bingo, good old legitimacy. I also believe he married Cyrus’ daughter.

@@ArchaiaHistoria Ahh of course, but even then it seems to me strange to call Darius the founder of a dynasty that he both married into for better legitimacy, and that he claimed that Cyrus was also an older member of (with Darius claiming that they are all descended from Teispes).

@@ArchaiaHistoria Cyrus may have not created the achaemenid dynasty but he did start the first Persian empire.

John smith You’re a Zoroastrian?

@@ArchaiaHistoria Yes

John smith How’d I go then?

Thank you for following the true religion. The world benefits from having more Zoroastrians!!! :)

Referring to God's diary (Daily food)

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Thanks man! Glad to see you on the slack 😉

Because Islam only speaks the language of the sword!

If I have to... :P