Ormuzd's The Middle Persian name for Ahura Mazda, the supreme deity of Zoroastrianism, the "Lord of Wisdom" who represents light and truth.

living Word

Zoroaster The ancient Persian prophet, also known as Zarathustra, to whom the teachings of the Avesta were revealed.

Zend-Avesta. The primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the ancient Avestan language.

In an abridgment

along with a

Presentation of the religious system

of the Parsees Refers to the Zoroastrian community; historically, those who fled Persia for India to preserve their faith during Islamic expansion.

Friedrich Simon Eckard,

Pastor at Rensefeld in the Prince-Bishopric Hochstift: an ecclesiastical territory ruled by a bishop who held both religious and secular authority as a prince of the Holy Roman Empire. of Lübeck.

Greifswald,

printed and commissioned by Anton Ferdinand Röse, 1789.