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Zarathustrianism

Zarathustrianism

English

Noun

Zarathustrianism ‎(uncountable)

  1. (academic) Zoroaster's own doctrines as distinguished from later accretions (Zarathustricism, Zoroastrianism).

Etymology

Zarathustra +‎ ian +‎ ism, coined by Hermann Lommel and advanced by Ilya Gershevitch in the Hegelian dialectic view of Zoroastrianism in terms of thesis, antithesis, synthesis. In this construct, 'Zarathustrianism' is the thesis, 'Zarathustricism' is the antithesis, and 'Zoroastrianism' the synthesis.

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