Re: VMs: flowers & stars: Zoroastrian stuff

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Knox Mix wrote:

> > BTW, somewhere I have heard, in the Zoroastrian era in Iran, they had 
> > quite good
> > calculations about how the Earth and the rest of visible planets are 
> > rolling
> > around the Sun ... pretty long time before Kopernik ... could anybody 
> > confirm?
>
> They knew about a certain comet (Gochihr).
>
> ... Zarathushtra asked Ohrmazd: 'How much time remains until the time of 
> Frashegird, that is the making of Frashegird and the Future Body?' 
> Ohrmazd said: '3,000 years'.  (Pahlavi Rivayat, ch 25. based on tr. of 
> A.V. Williams, 1990.)
>
> NOTE: Frashegird (Av. 'Frasho-kereti', lit. 'making wonderful') refers 
> to the renovation of the universe, the last judgment.
>
> I figure that was AD 2002. I might be a few years off.

	Even further off topic: when did they think the Creation 
occurred?

	I've noticed that the traditional Jewish-Christian date for 
Creation more or less corresponds to the start of recorded 
history.  I wonder whether that's significant.  It could be 
that it ultimately comes from Mesopotamian history and legend.

Dennis

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