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Cao'an ("Thatched Hut") in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian.
Iranian Influence is complex series of Influences of iranian origin to other cultures, mainly in Central Asia in other parts of the world, the Iranian influence is just not in the religious sentence, but also in a cultural sentence in where can seen changes with a great importance.
Imperial influences[]
Parthian Religion[]
When the Parthian Empire comes to many parts of Eurasia, had a great impact, for example in Armenia many local deities adopted the parthian version of some Zoroastrian, with names like: Aramazd, Vahagn, Anahit, Nane, Tiur, Spandaramet and Mihr.
And even the word Spandaramet (an armenian word is a loanword from Iranian) was used for the armenian translation of the Bible.
Mithraism[]
The Mitharism was a roman-mysteric cult dedicated to Mithras, some elements from the Mithraism were adopted for the catholicism like the host and the analogy of devouring the body of the deity.
Manicheism[]
Manicheism was a gnostic persian religion, its influence was very great, because the Manichean Scrip is a derived from the sogdian alphabet was the precusor of the Mongolian, Uygur, Old Turkic and Old Hungary scrip, besides the Manicheism influences some sections of Chinese Buddhism, even the manichean chinese temple Cao'an is currently a Buddhist temple.
Zorastrian teology[]
Central Asia[]
In several central asia countries the Div are local demons in the folklore of those nations, this is a Zorostrian influence, due to in pre-islamic times central asia was both Zoroastrian and Buddhist, therefore in very common that the Divs be demons.
After of the Islmanation of central asia, the Divs remained as local demons, similar to the Ashuras in the Japanese folklore.
Early Slavs[]
The Early Slavs had a great zoroastrian influence, because for example the slavic word bog is derived from the iranian Baga, the word derived from Dyēus is Div that mean strange similar to the Avesta Daeva, but exist more word of a Iranian origin could be svet ("light"), mir ("peace", "agreement of parts", also meaning "world") and rai ("paradise").
Legacy in other religions[]
In the Baháʼí Faith the zoroastrianism is classified as one of the God´s revelation, and Zoroaster is considered as one manifestation of god. Curiously Baháʼu'lláh (the founder of Baháʼí) confirmed being a descendant of Zoroaster.
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