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What does Zoroaster mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Zoroaster? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. Ancient Iranian prophet after whom indigenous Iranian ethnic religion is named Zoroastrianism
  2. Pseudepigraphic name used by various Ancient Greek and Latin authors of late antiquity to lend their opinions weight.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Ostensible source/founder of Mithraism, the "mysteries" of the Roman Mysteriae Mithrae ("Mysteries of Mithras", "Mithraic Mysteries"), an astrology-centric, middle-platonic mystery cult of the 1st-4th century Roman Empire whose adherents worshiped in "caves" (i.e. Mithraea) in imitation of "Zoroaster". (Porphyry, De Antro Nympharum 6)
Name
  1. A male given name of Persian origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A golden star.
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The followers of Zoroaster learn to practice good words, good thoughts, and good deeds.
The laws of Zoroaster, with which he is unacquainted, incontrovertibly prove that this vice was never recommended to the Persians.
The fourth who worshipped homa was Pourushaspa, and he was rewarded by the birth of his son Zoroaster.
Zoroaster was not their founder, but was their reformer, and the purifier of their doctrines.
Its religious core is a collection of songs or hymns, the Gāthās, thought to be in the main the very words of Zoroaster.
It was divided between the treasury of Zoroaster and that of the Eleusinian mysteries.

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