Zoroastrians considered fire a purifier of souls.

琐罗亚斯德教认为火是灵魂的净化器。

In particular, Indian Zoroastrians are called Parsis.

特别是印度琐罗亚斯德教徒被称为Parsis。

So what are Zoroastrians doing in the meantime when they—when they lose somebody?

那么，当琐罗亚斯德教徒失去某人时，他们在做什么呢？

Zoroastrians viewed them as spirits whose cries told of the cosmic struggle between darkness and light.

琐罗亚斯德教徒将他们视为精神，他们的哭声诉说着黑暗与光明之间的宇宙斗争。

Akbar also hosted lively religious debates where Sunni and Shia Muslims, Hindus, Jains, Zoroastrians, and the newly arrived Portuguese Jesuit missionaries defended the merits of their respective faiths.

阿克巴还主持了热烈的宗教辩论，让逊尼派和什叶派穆斯林、印度教徒、耆那教徒、祆教徒和新来的葡萄牙耶稣会传教士捍卫各自信仰的优点。

Traditional Hindus ceremonially burn the body, and Zoroastrians, followers of one of the oldest monotheistic religions, traditionally place bodies atop a tower to expose them to the Sun and scavenging birds.

传统印度教在仪式上裡会火葬尸体，而拜火教教徒，是最古老宗教之一的信徒，传统上会将尸体放置于一座天井上暴露给太阳及食腐鸟类。

And so as a result there is an increasing, sort of, spiral of decline to the degree that now in the land of its birth-in Iran-Zoroastrians are a tiny, tiny minority.

如今就算在琐罗斯特教的发源地伊朗，其教徒数量也为数不多。

The report make clear that other religious minorities are also targeted by the government-most particularly the Baha'is, as well as Sunnis and Shi'a who challenge the regime's theological orthodoxy, Jews, Yarsanis, and Zoroastrians.

这份报告显示其他少数派宗教也是政府的目标，尤其是包括巴哈教，逊尼教及什叶教在内。这些宗教对政府的犹太教、也萨尼教及索罗亚斯德教等正教理论发起了挑战。

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。