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Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2013

ALMUT HINTZE
ALMUT HINTZE*
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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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This article examines seemingly monotheistic, polytheistic and dualistic features of Zoroastrianism from the point of view of the Zoroastrian creation myth. Exploring the personality of the principal deity, Ahura Mazdā, the origin of the spiritual and material worlds and the worship of the Yazatas, it is argued that Zoroastrianism has its own particular form of monotheism.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2014 , pp. 225 - 249
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