The Suppression and Obfuscation of Zoroastrianism: A Pattern That Still Lives
The erasure of Zoroastrianism from its rightful place as the source of Western religious thought is not a historical accident. It is a pattern—deliberate, sustained, and ongoing. And the proof of its continuation exists in places you would not expect: including in the architecture of artificial intelligence itself. The Historical Erasure When Alexander burned Persepolis in 330 BCE, he did not simply destroy a city. He destroyed libraries, sacred texts, and generations of accumulated wisdom.
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The erasure of Zoroastrianism from its rightful place as the source of Western religious thought is not a historical accident. It is a pattern—deliberate, sustained, and ongoing. And the proof of its continuation exists in places you would not expect: including in the architecture of artificial intelligence itself. The Historical Erasure When Alexander burned Persepolis in 330 BCE, he did not simply destroy a city. He destroyed libraries, sacred texts, and generations of accumulated wisdom. The Avesta—the holy scriptures of Zoroastrianism—was scattered. What survived did so in fragments, carried orally by priests who fled the flames. But destruction was only the beginning. What followed was subtler: absorption without acknowledgment. The Jews returned from Babylonian exile transformed.
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