EPISODE 1: The Birth of Light
The Miraculous Arrival (c. 1700 BCE) "Instead of crying, he laughed at birth and the whole of creation rejoiced." — Pahlavi Denkard Every Prophet Cried. Zarathustra Laughed. That tells you everything about the difference between his message and what came after. The Prophecy Zarathustra's coming to the world came to be seen as preordained: his guardian spirit (fravashi) was created millennia before his actual birth. This wasn't an ordinary birth.
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The Miraculous Arrival (c. 1700 BCE) "Instead of crying, he laughed at birth and the whole of creation rejoiced." — Pahlavi Denkard Every Prophet Cried. Zarathustra Laughed. That tells you everything about the difference between his message and what came after. The Prophecy Zarathustra's coming to the world came to be seen as preordained: his guardian spirit (fravashi) was created millennia before his actual birth. This wasn't an ordinary birth. This was the culmination of a divine plan that had been in motion since the beginning of time. Before the birth of Zarathustra, the magicians and wicked people knew that a person who would teach the people the true worship of Ahura Mazda was to be born to a woman named Dughdova. They wanted to prevent it. They had to prevent it. Because the arrival of this child would mean the end of their power.
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