Associated roles
Truth, order and divine wisdom
Historical context
Achaemenid kings invoked Ahura Mazda in royal inscriptions. Later Zoroastrian writings illuminate related ideas across different historical settings.
What survives in the evidence?
Royal inscriptions and religious texts offer different kinds of testimony with different dates.
What remains uncertain?
The relationship between Achaemenid religion and later Zoroastrian traditions remains a subject of scholarship.