WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Zoroastrianism is an ancient Persian religion that may have originated as early as 4, 000 years ago. Arguably the world’s first monotheistic faith, it’s one of the oldest religions still in existence.

Detailed explanation-2: -By 650 BCE, the Zoroastrian faith, a monotheistic religion founded on the ideas of the philosopher Zoroaster, had become the official religion of ancient Persia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Zoroastrian name of the religion is Mazdayasna, which combines Mazda-with the Avestan word yasna, meaning “worship, devotion". In English, an adherent of the faith is commonly called a Zoroastrian or a Zarathustrian.

Detailed explanation-4: -Zoroastrianism is one of the world’s oldest known living religions and has its origins in the distant past. It developed about three and a half thousand years ago from the ancient Indo-Iranian religion that was once shared by the ancestors of nomadic herding tribes that later settled in Iran and northern India.