Zoroastrian Immortals

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May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced: There is finally a chess group for Zoroastrians!

Unto the Glory of the Aryans, made by Mazda.

"We worship here, Hormazd,

who has created the cattle, grain, water,

the beneficent vegetation, light, the earth,

and all good things" (including chess!)

(Yasna 37.1)

"Zoroastrianism is the oldest of the revealed world-religions, and it has probably had more influence on mankind, directly and indirectly, than any other single faith." - Boyce, Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, 1979

"For what constitutes the tremendous historical uniqueness of that Persian... Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work." - Nietsche, Ecce Homo, 1908

"Dishonorable, fire-worshipping knaves… if this fire of dirt that has risen from the temples of Pars is not extinguished, soon the trash will spread and they invite all to join the Zoroastrian creed." - Ayatollah Khomeini