Nowruz is believed to have its roots in the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia.

诺鲁孜节被认为来源于古代波斯的琐罗亚斯德宗教。

Zoroastrians considered fire a purifier of souls.

琐罗亚斯德教认为火是灵魂的净化器。

There are still significant Zoroastrian communities all over the world, especially in the religion's homeland, Iran.

如今全世界仍有许多琐罗亚斯特教徒的社群，尤其是在它的发源地伊朗。

As well as sending silver dishes with symbolic images, Shapur also sent Zoroastrian missionaries.

除了送出具有象征意义的银盘外，沙普尔还派出了琐罗亚斯特教的传教士。

Half of me is Zoroastrian, the other half of me is Hindu.

我一半是琐罗亚斯德教徒，另一半是印度教徒。

Like they were Zoroastrian, which has a claim to being the world’s first monotheistic religion.

就像他们是琐罗亚斯德教一样，自称是世界上第一个一神论宗教。

The cult is a survival from the old Zoroastrian religion.

【survival】这种膜拜仪式是古老的拜火教遗留下来的。

I did have some luck. It's.... Turns out it's Zoroastrian.

是的 这次我运气不错 好象是和索罗亚斯德教有关。

Zoroastrian demons. And they're savage, animalistic.

索罗亚斯德教描述的魔鬼 凶残兽性。

And gradually, over the course of the centuries and then the millennia, his teachings became the focus for what we could probably call a Zoroastrian church.

经过千百年的发展，他的教诲成为琐罗亚斯特教的核心。

Shapur, acting as agent for the supreme Zoroastrian god of goodness, will defeat the forces of primal evil and so fulfil his central role as king.

沙普尔作为琐罗亚斯特教善神的代言人，将战胜一切恶势力，完成身为国王的重大职责。

It is both a secular image-because of course hunting was enjoyed by most people, by most nations and especially in Iran-it was also an expression of the Zoroastrian ideology of the time.

这是一幅俗世画—狩猎是大部分民众喜欢的消遣，在伊朗尤其盛行—但同时也是当时琐罗亚斯特教思想的表达。

But if Zoroastrians today are relatively few in number, some of their faith's core teachings about the eternal conflict of good and evil, about the ending of the world, are still very powerful today.

虽然教徒的数量不算多，但他们的一些核心教义，如世界的善恶之争，以及世界末日的观念，依然有巨大影响。