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Zarathustra

Zarathustra

"Zarathustra was thus the first to teach the Doctrines
of an individual Judgment, Heaven and Hell, the future
Resurrection of the Body, the general Last Judgment,
and Life everlasting for the reunited Soul and Body.
These Doctrines were to become familiar Articles of
Faith to much of Mankind, through borrowings by
Judaism, Christianity and Islam; yet it is in
Zoroastrianism itself that they have their fullest
logical Coherence...."
-Mary Boyce, Op. Cit. p. 29"

A great thinker in the service of others


 Zarathustra

There are many hypotheses about the meaning of Zarathustra`s name.The right spelling of the name in Avestan is `Zarathushtra`.

It is the ancient form as it is given in the Gathas. Also other forms exist because the teaching of Zarathustra was spread in the different regions. So, we have Zoroaster in Greek, Zartosht in Persian, Zardusht in Gujarati etc.

`Zarathustra` is the combined form of `Zarathushtra` and Greek `Zoroaster`.According to linguistics, the word Zarathustra means `golden shinning star` : `Zar-` means `gold`. `-ushtra` comes from `ush-` (shining)+ `stra` (the star).

Some scholars say, however that `-tu-` in `-tushtra` means `two`,and it makes the name `The golden shining double star`, or `The Golden Sirius`, as `-tushtra` and `tishtrya`/`tishtar` can be the same words,and the Sirius is indeed the double star.
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