拜火教

The language of the earliest Zoroastrian writings is close to that of the Indian Vedas, and much of the mythology is recognizably the same.

语言的著作是最早拜火教接近印度吠陀，和许多神话是公认相同。

The sacred literature of Zoroastrianism is found in the Avesta, which was compiled sometime during the Sassanian period (224 - 640 AD) from much earlier materials.

神圣的文学拜火教被发现在该阿维斯塔，这是编译的波斯萨珊在某个时期（ 224 - 640年）从更早材料。

Adopted as the faith of the Persian kings, Zoroastrianism became the official religion of the Achaemenid empire and flourished under its successors, the Parthian and Sassanian empires.

采用为信仰的波斯国王，拜火教成为我国的官方宗教和繁荣的阿契美尼德帝国在其继任者，在帕提亚和波斯萨珊帝国。

Tradition tells us that the Zoroastrian scriptures consisted originally of twenty-one nasks, but only one of these, the Vendidad, had been completely preserved.

传统告诉我们，拜火教经文由最初的21 nasks ，但只有其中之一，该Vendidad ，已被完全保留。

The worship of fire is one of the earliest forms of religion.

拜火教是最早的宗教形式之一。

The apparent similarity in form between the supreme sky deities of primitive cultures and the single godheads of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Zoroastrianism has led some Western students of religion to speak of a primitive monotheism.

&显然在形式上相似的最高之间的天空神的原始文化和单一godheads犹太教，基督教，伊斯兰教和拜火教已导致一些西方宗教学生讲一个&原始一神教。

Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes, he took a leisurely promenade about the streets, where crowds of people of many nationalities - Europeans, Persians with pointed caps, Banyas with round turbans, Sindis with square bonnets, Parsees with black mitres and long-robed Armenians - were collected.

原来这天正是帕西人的节日，他们这一族是信奉拜火教民族的后裔，在印度人当中，数他们技艺最巧、文化最高、头脑最聪明、作风最严肃。

Other cultures have other canons of classics, however, and a recurring strain of neoclassicism appears to be a natural expression of a culture at a certain moment in its career, a culture that is highly self-aware, that is also confident of its own high mainstream tradition, but at the same time feels the need to regain something that has slipped away: Apollonius of Rhodes is a neoclassic writer; Ming ceramics pay homage to Sung celadon porcelains; Italian 15th century humanists learn to write a "Roman" hand we call italic; Neo-Babylonian culture is a neoclassical revival, and in Persia the "classic" religion of Zoroaster, Zoroastrianism, is revived after centuries, to "re-Persianize" a culture that had fallen away from its own classic Achaemenean past.

其他文化有其他经典的经典，然而，周期性应变的新古典主义似乎是一种自然表达的文化在某一时刻在其职业生涯中，文化是非常自我意识，这也是它自己的信心高主流传统，但同时认为有必要恢复这一组织已溜走了：阿波罗纽斯的罗德是一个新古典主义的作家；明陶瓷顶礼膜拜宋青瓷瓷器；意大利15世纪人文主义学习写&罗马&一方面，我们呼吁斜体；新巴比伦文化是一个新古典主义复苏，并在波斯的&经典&的宗教Zoroaster ，拜火教，是恢复后，百年来，&重新Persianize &的文化，已经下降远离自己的经典Achaemenean过去。

Many of the details of Zoroastrianism are later developments, some post-Christian and even post-Mohammedan, and scholars are divided on what elements are to be traced to Zoroaster's own teaching.

许多细节的拜火教是后来的事态发展，一些后基督教，甚至后伊斯兰教，学者分为哪些要素是要追溯到Zoroaster自己的教学。

" The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls has reopened the discussion, due to the presence of marked "Zoroastrian influences in the Qumran literature.

发现的死海古卷已重开讨论，由於存在明显的&拜火教&影响的库姆兰文献。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。