9/05/2012

September 5: Frashokereti, the Zoroastrian Apocalypse

Frashokereti is the Zoroastrian term for the apocalypse, in which the virgin-born savior Saoshyant compels both the living and the dead to ford a river of molten metal. The river will burn the wicked, while swirling "like milk" around the righteous. As it flows into the netherworld, this river will annihilate the universe's malignant co-deity Angara Mainyu.

Without a specific date to which to attach Frashokereti, I chose this birthdate of singer Freddie Mercury (1946) who may well be the world's most famous modern Zoroastrian. (A Zoroastrian by birth and upbringing, at least.)