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13 Cards in this Set
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Magi
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Priests
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2 things Zoroaster was displeased with
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1. scrifice of cattle
2. ritual drunkenness |
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Ahura Mazdah
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Good God, encountered by Zoroaster
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Angra Mainyu
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Evil God, source of all evil. "the lie"
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ethical dualism
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2 principles, good vs. evil
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2 answers for relationship betwen Ahura Mazdah and Angra Mainyu
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1. Co-eternal realities
2. Angra is Ahura's son, disobeyed him and got kicked out |
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eschatology
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what one thinks is going to happen at the end of history
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Zoroastrian ethics:
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Good thoughts
good words good deeds |
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Where does judgement for afterlife take place?
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Bridge of Chinvat, over pit of despair
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Saoshyant
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savior, Z will return as this at the end of time
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2 unclean things
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corpse, menstruating woman
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Towers of silence
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structures for dead to decompose and be eaten by vultures
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Parsees
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practice Z today, live around Bombay
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