The bowl depicts the victory of the Zoroastrian Emperor Darius (550-486 BCE), with Ahura Mazda appearing as a presence near and above the emperor. The bowl was made in Burma around 1875-1900 and is now at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (accession no. 2009.25).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>The supreme deity of the Zoroastrian faith, known as Ahura Mazda, is represented on this ceremonial bowl as a winged disk, at upper right in the photo. The bowl depicts the victory of the Zoroastrian Emperor Darius (550-486 BCE), with Ahura Mazda appearing as a presence near and above the emperor. The bowl was made in Burma in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and is now at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (accession no. 2009.25).<\/p>\n
Zoroastrianism is the oldest extant monotheistic religion. According to the Pluralism Project: \u201cThe one supreme and infinite God \u2014 Ahura Mazda \u2014 cannot be fully understood by humanity, [but] six attributes of Ahura Mazda were revealed to Zarathushtra. Known as the Amesha Spentas, they include\u00a0Vohu Mana,<\/em>\u00a0the Good Mind;\u00a0Asha,<\/em>\u00a0the divine law of righteousness, justice, and truth;\u00a0Kshathra,<\/em>\u00a0the majesty and power of good dominion;\u00a0Armaity,<\/em>\u00a0Ahura Mazda\u2019s love and benevolent devotion; Haurvatat, well-being and perfection; and\u00a0Ameratat,<\/em>\u00a0immortality. Humans must strive, both through reason and action, to emulate these attributes of God to live a good life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Harper writes about the oldest existing monotheist religion, Zoroastrianism and its god Ahura Mazda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,449],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deities","tag-zoroastrianism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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