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appears in passing in Bryan Ferry’s ‘Mother of Pearl’, a Roxy Music song from the band’s 1973
Stranded album.
The protagonist and narrator of Gore Vidal’s 1981 novel Creation is described to be the grandson
of Zoroaster, with whom the narrator has several philosophical discussions and whose death he is
a witness of.
In other religious systems
In Manichaeism
Manichaeism considered Zoroaster to be a figure (along with Jesus and the Buddha) in a line of
prophets of which Mani (210–277) was the culmination. [24] Zoroaster’s ethical dualism is - to an
extent - incorporated in Mani’s doctrine, which viewed the world as being locked in an epic battle
between opposing forces of good and evil. [25] Manicheanism also incorporated other elements of
Zoroastrian tradition, particularly the names of supernatural beings; however, many of these other
Zoroastrian elements are either not part of Zoroaster's own teachings or are used quite differently
from how they are used in Zoroastrianism. [25][26]
In the Bahá'í Faith
Zoroaster appears in the Bahá'í Faith as a “Manifestation of God,” one of a line of prophets who
have progressively revealed the Word of God to a gradually maturing humanity. Zoroaster thus
shares an exalted station with Abraham, Moses, Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Muhammad,
the Báb, and the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh. [27] Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the
Bahá'í Faith, saw Bahá'u'lláh as the fulfillment of a post-Sassanid Zoroastrian prophecy that saw a
return of Sassanid emperor Bahram: [28] Shoghi Effendi also stated that Zoroaster lived roughly
1,000 years before Jesus. [z]
See also
• List of founders of major religions
Notes
a: ^ Originally proposed by Burnouf [29]
b: ^ For refutation of these and other proposals, see Humbach, 1991. [30]
c: ^ The Bundahishn computes “200 and some years” (GBd xxxvi.9) or “284 years” (IBd xxxiv.9).
That ‘258 years’ was the generally accepted figure is however noted by al-Biruni and al-
Masudi, with the latter specifically stating (in 943/944 CE) that “the Magians count a period
of two hundred and fifty-eight years between their prophet and Alexander.” [31][32]
d: ^ “258 years before Alexander,” is only superficially precise, and thus debated. [32] What in
Zoroaster’s life happened 258 before Alexander? His birth? His enlightenment? His
conversion of Vistaspa? His death? Similarly, before Alexander’s what? His accession to the
Macedonian throne? His invasion? His death? The beginning of the “Era of Alexander”
(which began 10 years after his death)?
It has been suggested that this “traditional date” is an adoption of some date from alien
sources, from the Greeks [33] or the Babylonians [34] for example, which the priesthood then
reinterpreted. A simpler explanation is that the priests subtracted 42 (the age at which
Zoroaster is said to have converted Vistaspa) from the round figure of 300.
e: ^ The “extravagant,” [35] “fantastic” [35] and “extraordinary” [36] 6000 BCE date (or thereabouts)
appears in several classical sources: Pliny the Elder (1st c.), Plutarch (1st c.), a Scholion to the
(Pseudo-)Platonic Alcibiades Major, Diogenes Laertius (3rd c.), Lactantius (3rd c.) and