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<blockquote>It is ... the ''daevas'' specifically whom Zoroaster attacks, not the ''ahuras'' whom he prefers to ignore.... In all probability he considered them to be God’s creatures and as fighters on his side. In any case he concentrated the full weight of his attack on the ''daevas'' and their worshippers who practised a gory sacrificial ritual and were the enemies of the settled pastoral community to which the Prophet himself belonged.<ref>Zaehner, “Zoroastrianism,” p. 210.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>It is ... the ''daevas'' specifically whom Zoroaster attacks, not the ''ahuras'' whom he prefers to ignore.... In all probability he considered them to be God’s creatures and as fighters on his side. In any case he concentrated the full weight of his attack on the ''daevas'' and their worshippers who practised a gory sacrificial ritual and were the enemies of the settled pastoral community to which the Prophet himself belonged.<ref>Zaehner, “Zoroastrianism,” p. 210.</ref></blockquote> | ||
[[File:Zoroaster-and-vestasp.jpg|thumb|Zarathustra and Vishtaspa]] | |||
== Spreading his message == | == Spreading his message == | ||
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<blockquote>Further, the kusti is tied over an inner shirt of pure white, the “sudra,” which has a little purse sewn into the throat; and this is to remind the believer that he should be continually filling its emptiness with the merit of good thoughts, words and deeds, and so be laying up treasure for himself in heaven.<ref>Boyce, ''Zoroastrians'', pp. 31–32.</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>Further, the kusti is tied over an inner shirt of pure white, the “sudra,” which has a little purse sewn into the throat; and this is to remind the believer that he should be continually filling its emptiness with the merit of good thoughts, words and deeds, and so be laying up treasure for himself in heaven.<ref>Boyce, ''Zoroastrians'', pp. 31–32.</ref></blockquote> | ||
[[File:ZoroastrianPriest Banier1741a.jpg|thumb|A Zoroastrian priest reads from a book while performing a sacrifice, Bernard Picart (1673–1733)]] | |||
== Fire in Zoroastrianism == | == Fire in Zoroastrianism == | ||