Best Purpose News Today

Ahura Mazda And Angra Mainyu: Polar Opposites There are several different accounts of how Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu are related to one another. One of these versions can be found in the Gathas, the 17 Avestan hymns believed to have been composed by Zoroaster (known also as Zarathustra), the founder of Zoroastrianism. The Gathas are thought to have been written during the 14th or 13th century BC, and were included in the Avesta (the primary collection of Zoroastrian religious texts) whe...

Siris Tuesday, January 19, 2021 Name Etymologies Etymologies of names are interesting. Brandon has no single etymology; the name and close variants arise independently in multiple languages, sounding almost exactly the same and eventually in time being treated as equivalent but having no common meaning: Prince, Raven or Crow, Broom Hill, Sword. They also get appropriated -- the Irish forms of the name are not originally Irish, for instance; it was a foreign name that became popular. I tend to t...