18. The fresh new vedic ritual regarding Agni and Avestic ritual out of Atar was in fact similar. Brand new Hindu Gods and you can Goddesses such as for example Indra and you can Bhadrika end up like Ahura Mazda and Mithra. Inside the India devas came to be stronger than the fresh new asuras plus the latter word in the course of time took on this is regarding an effective devil. In Iran the opposite happened while the daevas have been denounced because the demons of the Zoroaster.

They still survive therefore on the divs from Persian foklore, specifically in the event Ferdowsi’s epic Shah Nameh)

19. Vedic and you will Persian religions (each other Aryan) mingled for the Gandhar, in which endured the newest Indian town called Taxila because of the Greek. From the period of Darius (6th century BC), by far the most subdued of their cult had evolved into that was later also known as Zoroastrianism – an excellent dualist faith accounting for the issue of evil in terms from fight of a good which have a wicked jesus. To this day , you can find close similarities in the Persian festival away from Nowruz (Iranian New-year) along with popular by Parsis in Asia and Holi since they are both centered for the fire.

For the Vedic several months, gods was indeed put into two groups the new devas plus the asuras (In the Iranian daevas and you can ahuras)

20. The Indo-Iranian element in later Hinduism was chiefly found in the initiatory ceremony (upanayana) did by the boys, an excellent rite in Hinduism plus in Zoroastrianism that involves the tying of a beneficial sacred wire. The Vedic jesus Varuna, today an unimportant ocean jesus looks in the Rigveda because the revealing many features of the brand new Zoroastrian Ahura mazda (“Wise Lord”); the fresh hallucinogenic sacred take in soma represents the sacred haoma from Zoroastrianism. Varuna was known as an Asura, an expression along with used on minimal gods, which in after Hinduism stumbled on indicate a course from demons, however, which in Persia is implemented because of the Zarathustra in its local function within the title of one’s high jesus from white – Ahura mazda. Varuna was the newest highest jesus of your own Indo-Iranians until the a few individuals split up. Varuna was and you can foremost a master, a keen emperor seated within the a beneficial palace in sky commonly that have associated gods to your. Key of those try Mitra, a goodness with many solar attributes. He was portrayed on the Zoroastrian pantheon and you will was also widely worshipped regarding the Roman Kingdom according to the Greco-Iranian name Mithras.

21. The fresh new Iranian Surya (sun god) dressed in a lengthy coat with an excellent sacred girdle and you will leg-highest boots is actually worshipped because of the Indian leaders. He previously a different title Mundirasvami therefore the phrase Mundira was utilized in ancient Iranian texts away from Khotan. This new Modhera forehead inside the Gujarat and you will Munirka village into the Delhi remind of one’s term Mundira. The sun’s rays Goodness at the Konarak, Orissa known inside the Iranian drapery and you may shoes. The new royal priests of this regal surya had been out of Iranian ancestry like SakadvipiyaBrahmanas, or Mishra (in which th away from AvestaMithra turned into sh).

twenty two. Both Vedas and you may Gathas have no location for idols or temples. Each other enjoin the maintenance of fire and performance of sacrifice (Sanskrit yajna and you can Avesticyasna). Its priests possess popular responsibilities and you will labels.

23. The brand new five varnas (group out of community) off India created of very early Aryan group departments. Particular stratification stayed in several Indo-European communities. Ancient Iran had five pistras (classes), similar in certain areas to those within the Asia. The fresh new four-flex category away from neighborhood into priests, warriors, peasants and you may artisans looks on Vedas, the new Gathas and you can Yasna and you can Ferdowsi’s Shah Nameh (and therefore says the designations while the Amuzian, Nisarian, Nasudi and you can Ahnukishi.

twenty four. The machine regarding four yugas (ages) was just as the philosophy out-of five decades you to definitely stayed when you look at the ancient Persia. The system was also prevalent inside the ancient Greece. The brand new Iranians, like the Indians, believed that the nation is actually split up into seven countries otherwise karshvar (keshvar within the modern Persian, meaning that country).