He did not wander into the desert, he received the dēn on Mt. Uši.darəna, also it’s not monotheistic.
That notion really annoys me, especially when I see Iranians too constantly regurgitating it.
It’s also important to remember that religions such as Islam and Christianity, in their polemics against the religion, never once understood it to be any sort of mono-ism.
It’s also important to remember that religions such as Islam and Christianity, in their polemics against the religion, never once understood it to be any sort of mono-ism.
When Christian polemicists such as Eznik of Kolb discuss one of the Iranian cosmological accounts, which is often described as ‘Zurvanite’ (sometimes deemed monistic), the crux of his argument regards the explicit dualist message regarding the twin spirits and their opposition.
And:
(You can read the entirety of the arguments in his ‘Refutation of the Sects’)
(You can read the entirety of the arguments in his ‘Refutation of the Sects’)
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