Word: ahriman
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...prophet named Zoroaster who lived some six centuries before Christ. Zoroaster's exact teaching is obscure but, as passed down by the Parsis, it is basically a vision of life as conflict between a spirit of goodness and light-Ahura Mazda -and a spirit of evil and darkness-Ahriman. The Parsis worship Ahura Mazda in the form of fire, one of three sacred elements. Because the earth is also sacred (as is water), they choose to bury only the bones of their dead-after the flesh has been stripped away in the towers of silence...
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