That's right, Mithra is the most important spirit of Zoroastrianism, after their god, Ahura Mazda.
Yes, in ancient Persia, Mithra was a deity who evolved in the Zoroastrian religion as a yazata, or lesser divinity. Mithra was associated with contracts, covenants, and truth in Zoroastrianism.
Yes, Vahbiz Dorabjee is of Parsi Zoroastrian descent, not Hindu.
The Tower of Silence is associated with the Zoroastrian religion. It is a structure used for the exposure of dead bodies to be consumed by vultures, following the Zoroastrian belief of maintaining purity of the earth by not contaminating it with dead bodies.
Alyque Padamsee was of Parsi-Zoroastrian faith.
Christianity, not Islam, is the second oldest religion. They were both preceded by the Hebrew monotheistic religion, and by the non-monotheistic Zoroastrian religion and many other different beliefs involving worship of idols and natural phenomena.
Zoroastrianism promoted the worship of Ahura Mazda as the supreme deity associated with truth, order, and goodness. Ahura Mazda is considered the creator of the universe and the embodiment of light and wisdom in Zoroastrian belief.
In the Zoroastrian religion, the Archangel Michael's counterpart was Mithra.
The term Mithra has several meanings in the context of religion. The Romans believed Mithra was a sun god, while the Persian people believed Mithra was the god of the morning sun.
The Roman god, Mithras is depicted as slaying a bull. Mithras was an evolution and deification of Mithra, in the Persian Zoroastrian belief. Zoroastrian beliefs about Mithra changed over time, between regarding him more or less as a god, to being comparable to an archangel. He was always clearly inferior to Ahura Mazda.
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He was born to Zoroastrian parents.
Zoroastrian, like his parents.
The body of sacred writings of the Zoroastrian religion
No. Sanaya Irani is a Zoroastrian (the religion is commonly called "Parsi" in India). This is a distinct religion from both Hinduism and Islam. As for why she is not Muslim, she was born to Zoroastrian parents and was never convinced that Islam is the correct religion.
Yes, Vahbiz Dorabjee is of Parsi Zoroastrian descent, not Hindu.
Zoroastra (Zarathushtra) was the Persian prophet-founder of the Zoroastrian religion.
No, Freddie Mercury was a follower of the Zoroastrian religion.