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QuoteReplyTopic: Zarathushtra the Amesha Spenta Posted: 28-Mar-2013 at 20:27
Where in the Khorda Avesta is Zarathushtra called an Amesha Spenta? In Yasna 3 and 7 he's called a Yazata "angel." This is interesting to me because some scholars assert that the idea that man is the offspring of a god is a Greek idea. Many Greek heroes are the offspring of the gods. But Sassanian kings considered themselves to be offspring of the gods, and Zarathushtra is apparently called a Amesha Spenta "archangel" or hypostasis of Ahura Mazda.
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