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Definition of zoroaster

  • An ancient Iranian prophet after whom the indigenous Iranian ethnic religion, Zoroastrianism, is named
  • Ostensible source/founder of Mithraism, the "mysteries" of the Roman ''Mysteriae Mithrae', an astrology-centric, middle-platonic mystery cult of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire whose adherents worshiped in "caves" in imitation of "Zoroaster". (Porphyry, ''De Antro Nympharum'6

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