Loading ...Cyrus the Great (c. 585 - c. 529 BCE) was king of Persia when Zoroaster (c628 - c551 BCE), or Zarathustra, as he was later called by the Greeks, began to preach that a battle between good and evil , between the High God Ahura Mazda and the evil Ahriman, was being carried out on earth.
After the destruction of Ahriman, the earth would be recycled and purified. Humans would be rewarded with paradise, an ideal heavenly realm with a divine court abiding over the blessed. Hell was awaiting the wicked.
Zoroastrianism is known as the first true monotheistic religion.
Zoroastrian priests, called Magi, were among the first to formally institutionalize the idea of astrology. The religion still exists, and there have been Zoroastrian revivals over the years, most recently between 1941 and 1979.
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