Both Uses of
Zoroastrianism
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Then he had penetrated further, lower, beneath all that finished, material, limited knowledge; he had, perhaps, risked his soul, and had seated himself in the cavern at that mysterious table of the alchemists, of the astrologers, of the hermetics, of which Averroès, Gillaume de Paris, and Nicolas Flamel hold the end in the Middle Ages; and which extends in the East, by the light of the sevenbranched candlestick, to Solomon, Pythagoras, and Zoroaster.†
Chpt 1.4.5Zoroaster = founder of a religion started in Persia in the 6th century BC
- That at least was Jehan's idea, when he heard him exclaim, with the thoughtful breaks of a dreamer thinking aloud,— "Yes, Manou said it, and Zoroaster taught it!†
Chpt 2.7.4 *
Definition:
a religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster; based on concept of struggle between light and dark (good and evil)