zardusht

Updated: May 12, 2025

The date of Zoroaster or Zarathustra the former is the Greek, the latter the old Iranian form of the name, contracted in Persian to Zardusht can only be fixed very approximately. He stands at the very beginning of the Avesta literature, and the developments in religion to which that literature testifies must have occupied a long period.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems