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Which word comes from the title of Zoroastrian priests?
Answer: magic
Why: Greek magikos first described anything of the magi and only later came to mean magical.
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In which language are the Gathas written?
Answer: Avestan
Why: Old Avestan is so close to the Rigveda's Sanskrit that scholars date the Gathas to roughly 1500 to 900 BCE, though no date is certain.
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Who is the future saviour Zoroastrians await?
Answer: Saoshyant
Why: In Avestan the name Saoshyant means one who brings benefit.
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What were Zoroastrian priests in ancient Persia called?
Answer: Magi
Why: Matthew's Gospel uses the same word, magoi, for the visitors from the east who honour the infant Jesus.
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Which Indian business group did a Parsi found in 1868?
Answer: Tata
Why: Founder Jamsetji Tata was born into a family of Parsi priests in Navsari, Gujarat.
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Which Sanskrit word for 'god' has a Zoroastrian twin meaning 'demon'?
Answer: Deva
Why: Iran flipped the pair the other way round: its ahuras, related to the Vedic asuras, are the good lords.
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