Pendiri agama zoroaster biography

Zoroaster/Zarathustra (c 550-523 BCE) was a prophet and spiritual teacher who founded the religion of Zoroastrianism. Zoroaster was a religious reformer teaching a monotheistic religion based on choosing between light and darkness – truth and falsehood.

Zoroaster was born in Northeast Iran, close to the border of modern day Afghanistan (Old Persian Empire).

His exact birthplace is uncertain and there is considerable uncertainty about the time period in which he lived. He is known to have spoken an old Iranian language (Avestan – closely related to Vedic Sanskrit)

Little is known about his early life, though his name Zoroaster is derived from the ancient translation of ‘camels’.

Zoroaster was born into a priestly caste who dominated the religious and social practices of the day.

The religion which Zoroaster was born into was loosely based on a form of Hinduism. It is known that the religious practices of the time involved animal sacrifices and there were rigid caste st