Zoroaster Zoroaster Zoroaster (, ; "Zōroastrēs"), (Persian: زرتشت pronounced as Zartusht) also known as Zarathustra (, ; "Zaraθuštra"), Zarathushtra Spitama, or Ashu Zarathushtra, was an ancient Persian prophet, spiritual leader and ethical philosopher who taught a spiritual philosophy of self-realization and realization of the Divine. His teachings challenged the existing traditions of the Indo-Iranian religion and later developed into the religion of Mazdayasna or Zoroastrianism. He inaugurated a movement that eventually became the dominant religion in Ancient Persia. He was a native speaker of Old Avestan and lived in the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau, but his exact birthplace is
Thus Spoke Zarathustra Zarathustra" is referenced in the Xenosaga video game series, even making it into the title of "Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra". The plot covers similar topics that Friedrich Nietzsche covers in his writings. The english translation of part 2 chapter 7 "Tarantulas" have been narrated by Jordan Peterson and musically toned by artist Akira the Don. Thus Spoke Zarathustra Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (, also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885 and published between 1883 and 1891. Much