20 (or more!) questions game # 4

No, but I was identified with him in error

Satan/Lucifer?

Http://youtu.be/JCT5uTdPRgs

No, I was a real person in historical records

& and would be their enemy regardless

Are you Nebuchadnezzar?

Marduk?

Zoroaster?

No & no

You're shooting in the dark

Follow the BIG hint re Not verse

I am well known in Western popular culture of the past 150 years

Step outside of the bible - my name is not there

Wait!
Did you edit your post?

Yes!

Zoroaster!

Popular Prose
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche, composed 1883 and 1885

Popular music
Also sprach Zarathustra, a tone poem composed in 1896 by Richard Strauss.

Yes I was shooting in the dark earlier and thought I hit the wrong target... removed it and put it back ...sorry

Zoroaster lived somewhere between 1700 & 1000 BCE
He conceived of a duality between truth & lies
He believed man's purpose was to ally himself with the creator for doing good and to confound evil
His influence on early Judaism was profound
Farsi is the current practice by his followers
When Islam came into what was once Persia & found his adherents, the Muslims were so taken by the purity of his spiritual teachings that they accepted him as one of the so called un-named prophets and incorporated his two books into their tolerated religions, along with Christianity and Judaism.

Some think the Magi/Wise men /Astrologers may have been influenced by Zoroaster

Yes, and there were thousands of pages of false scripts in Greek ascribed to him as a magi & astrologist although none of it was true

Very interesting :)

Rather interesting and difficult one so who's next?