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Article: Zoroastrianism's impact on other religions.(From Past to Present)
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- Calliope
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- January 1, 2005
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Religion is a universal human phenomenon, so there are bound to be certain similarities between individual faiths with regard to mythology, symbolism, and ritual. To measure the impact of one belief system upon another is rather like trying to answer the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" Sometimes, all we can do is show parallels between the concepts and practices of different religions, and then try to work out in which setting they first appeared.
During the time of the three great Iranian empires (Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sasanian), Zoroastrians had direct contact with neighboring religious communities, including Jews first, then ...