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Rituals

Sacred Stories

  • Fire Ritual
  • Belief that soul will undergo a test by fire and molten metal, evil will burn while good passes through unharmed
  • Represented through fire ritual
  • Symbolizes Ahura Mazda's purity
  • Tower of Silence
  • Avoids pollution of sacred elements of soil and fire to keep them pure
  • Corpses exposed to birds= final act of charity
  • Legend of Zarathustra
  • Sent by Ahura Mazda to get rid of evil
  • Evil men placed him in fire, but an angel turned fire cold
  • Visited by Ahura Mazda
  • People converting to monotheism
  • The original words of Zarathustra are found in series of five hymns called Gathas

Initiation

Afterlife Beliefs

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  • Navjote Ceremony
  • Initiation of a Parsi into Zoroastrianism
  • When a child technically comes of age (7-15)
  • Nahan- washing away contamination
  • Conceives death as a temporary triumph of evil over good, corpse demon rushes into body, contamination occurs
  • Judgment of the soul after death, followed by an afterlife of heaven or hell
  • Determine their own destiny
  • Soul meditates on his/her past life
  • Mithra, Rashnu, and Soroush
  • Final resurrection of everyone
  • Soul will continue to exist as long as creation and time exist

Questions

Works Cited

1. Do you think the child that takes part in the Navjote Initiation ceremony really understands the religion and all of its principles at the age of seven?

2. Why do you think Catholics wait until an older age?

3. Do you think Zarathustra instilled the principle of Divine Thought into Zoroastrians?

4. Why is fire symbolic and pure for Zoroastrians?

5. What are some similarities between Zoroastrian and Catholic afterlife beliefs?

  • http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/legnd33.html
  • http://socks-studio.com/2012/02/09/towers-of-silence-zoroastrian-architectures-for-the-ritual-of-death/
  • http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/death/

Zoroastrianism Afterlife

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