The Birthday of Everything
Khordad Sal — March 26 — The Day the Man Who Invented Monotheism Was Born eFireTemple.com March 26, Year 3763 Five days after Nowruz. Five days into the new Zoroastrian year. The Haft-sin table is still set. The sabzeh is still growing. The candles are still burning. And on the sixth day of the month of Farvardin — Khordad Sal — the community celebrates the birthday of the man who started it all. Zarathustra Spitama. The first monotheist.
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Khordad Sal — March 26 — The Day the Man Who Invented Monotheism Was Born eFireTemple.com March 26, Year 3763 Five days after Nowruz. Five days into the new Zoroastrian year. The Haft-sin table is still set. The sabzeh is still growing. The candles are still burning. And on the sixth day of the month of Farvardin — Khordad Sal — the community celebrates the birthday of the man who started it all. Zarathustra Spitama. The first monotheist. The first prophet to teach heaven and hell, resurrection, final judgment, free will, the Holy Spirit, the cosmic battle between good and evil, and the coming of a savior. The man whose ideas are practiced by 4.6 billion people who have never heard his name. He was born. He lived. He thought, he spoke, he acted. He changed everything. This is his day. Who He Was Strip away the mythology.
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Yasna · Gathas · Avesta