Word: zoroastrianism
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...Ghadiali dazzled a federal court into believing he was a Parsee-Zoroastrian, thus a Caucasian and therefore eligible for citizenship under the law then in effect...
Through the day, more & more workers joined the Tudeh men and tempers rose with the mercury, which hit a Zoroastrian 160°. By nightfall, when officials still refused to negotiate-the mob's fury burst like a rogue oil gusher...
...view that Hell was a place of extreme cold was held, as was only natural, by the fire-worshiping Zoroastrians. Evidence: recent investigations of Zoroastrian sacred literature...
Xerxes relates that he had difficulties with some of his subjects who worshipped forbidden gods, but that he "sapped the foundations" of the outlaw temples, restored the cult of the Zoroastrian god Ahuramazda. The Institute's Orientalists took this to mean that Xerxes' father, Darius, who probably heard the preaching of Zoroaster himself, enforced the new religion on unwilling priests and they, at Darius' death, tried to return to their old ways...
...report, ''His Majesty [Alfonso XIII], famed as 'the only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...