The Chinese Witness: How an Independent Civilization Verified Zarathustra's Antiquity
The Most Powerful Evidence Western Scholars Ignore When debating the dating of Zarathustra, Western academics retreat to a convenient escape hatch: "We can't be certain — dating ranges from 1700 BCE to 600 BCE." This uncertainty serves those who wish to minimize Zoroastrianism's influence on later religions. But there's a witness they never mention. China.
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The Most Powerful Evidence Western Scholars Ignore When debating the dating of Zarathustra, Western academics retreat to a convenient escape hatch: "We can't be certain — dating ranges from 1700 BCE to 600 BCE." This uncertainty serves those who wish to minimize Zoroastrianism's influence on later religions. But there's a witness they never mention. China. An entirely separate civilization — with its own astronomical records, historiographical tradition, and zero theological motive to inflate Persia's antiquity — independently placed Zarathustra's birth at 1767 BCE . This isn't Persian propaganda. This isn't Western bias. This is the testimony of Chinese scholars who encountered Zoroastrian teachings via the Silk Road and synchronized them with their own meticulous cosmic chronology. And it destroys the "600 BCE" minimalist dating permanently.
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