The Zoroastrians are the followers of the Iranian Prophet Spitaman Zarathushtra who lived in the great Iranian homeland of Airyanem Vaejah c. 1200 BCE. The Iranians and the Vedic Indians shared a common past and traces of this can be gleaned from the Avesta and Rig Veda. The Zoroastrain people entered recorded history in 550 BCE and for over a thousand years their religion flourished as the imperial religion of three great Iranian empires; the ...