To: 2MAR$ who wrote (60015 ) 10/11/2014 4:28:19 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (2) | Respond to Yep, as I've demonstrated to you before the Zoroastrianism you post about isn't as ancient as you think. The text that is now extant represents only a fragment of what remained in the 9th century of the late Sasanian Avesta compiled under the direction ofKhosrow I (531–579 ce ). Summaries of the contents of the Sasanian Avesta show that it was an enormous collection containing texts in Avestan Pahlavi Zoroastrianism Gatha s (“Songs”) of the Prophet Zoroaster Yasht s are among the oldest. The Gatha s contain expressions of Zoroaster’s religious vision which, in many ways, is a complicated reinterpretation of inherited Iranian religious ideas. The Yasht s are collections of verses dedicated to the various deities . Most of the Yasht s, though touched up with Zoroastrian terminology and ideas, have little to do with anything specifically Zoroastrian. The gods invoked are essentially the gods of pre-Zoroastrian Iran . Rigveda there is no secure evidence that religious compositions were reduced to writing until the late Arsacid or early Sasanian periods . Thus, unlike the other religions of the Middle East, the Iranian religions had no written texts in the ancient period . All religious “literature” was oral, in both composition and transmission.http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/293595/ancient-Iranian-religion/ Zoroastrianism didn't become a state religion of Persians till the Sassanian empirein the early Christian era.
