Ahura

     I drove a little Mazda pick-up for over a decade. I loved that little truck.
Does that make me a Mazdayasna?


An important part of Iranian history is the impact of Zarathsushtra on what it is to be Iranian. I am writing of the personage whose name came to us through the Greek as Zoroaster.
I loved Zoro in the Movies. Could that make me a follower of Zoroasterism?
Did the Magi deliver their gifts in a Mazda?


I'd guess that Zoroaster wrote his Gotha's about 600 BC. Those writings at that date are significant in that they comprise an early manifestation of morality in a monotheistic religion.


It is likely that he came from eastern Iran or perhaps Afghanistan.


There remains  about 3/4 of this little story I planned yet to be told, but I tire. I expect to finish it, or at least continue it, soon. Remind me.


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Iran

Have you looked at the map recently. It may be useful to check out the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea,and the Arabian Sea.
If you want to know why Iranians seem to be a bit jittery these day, you might note that their neighbor to the west is Iraq, and that their neighbors to the east are Pakistan and Afghanistan. You then might remember that we have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, and have begun to invade Pakistan, and have spoke of invading Iran. How would you feel if you were an Iranian.