Tell me truly, O Ahura, who upholds the earth below and the heavens from falling? Who made the waters and the plants? Who yoked swiftness to the winds and clouds? Who is the creator of Good Thought, O Mazda?
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"Through Righteousness and Good Mind, may we attain to the perfection of life."
"By Your fire, O Ahura Mazda, by Your truth, for its shining power, for its fiery glow, for its burning heat, we shall distinguish the upright from the wicked."
"The greatest weapon against evil is righteousness."
"May the evil-doer perish, and may the good be rewarded according to their deeds."
"Through righteous living, we can hasten the coming of the Frashokereti (renovation of the world)."
Iranian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism, the first major religion of cosmic dualism between good (Ahura Mazda) and evil (Angra Mainyu). Closely associated with The Buddha (near-contemporary Eastern moral-cosmological revolutionary). For an intellectual contrast, see Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher of 'beyond good and evil' — Nietzsche appropriated Zarathustra's name for Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) precisely to invert the original's moral cosmology — the historical Zoroaster founded the good-versus-evil framework Nietzsche's character announces the end of.
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The speaker asks the supreme god Ahura Mazda a series of direct questions about who is responsible for the fundamental workings of the universe. Who keeps the earth stable and stops the sky from collapsing? Who created water, plants, wind, and clouds? Who gave humans the capacity for good thinking? The questions are rhetorical, pointing toward one answer: a single wise creator behind all of nature and morality.
Zoroaster was a priest and religious reformer who broke from the polytheistic traditions of ancient Iran to preach worship of one supreme god, Ahura Mazda, the Wise Lord. These verses come from the Gathas, hymns he composed himself. The questioning style reflects his role as a prophet wrestling publicly with theology, and the emphasis on Good Thought (Vohu Manah) matches his doctrine that ethical cognition is central to serving the creator.
Zoroaster lived in ancient Iran, likely between 1500 and 1000 BCE, among pastoral tribes worshipping many nature gods through animal sacrifice and ritual drink. Surrounding cultures accepted a crowded pantheon where different deities controlled earth, sky, water, and weather. By attributing all creation to one wise god and linking cosmic order to moral thought, Zoroaster was proposing a radical monotheistic and ethical framework centuries before similar ideas took hold elsewhere.
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