Even Zarathustra had a struggle with a Triadic Structure. His one God, the Lord of Wisdom, if not the creator of knowledge was at least a fountain of knowledge, and he made a theoretical sense, but when you ask people to believe something there has to be more to it than "This is your idea, do as it says!" People wanted Angels, they wanted lots of Gods, they never really wanted a marked difference between good and bad, they needed to have sides to chose from, and given a choice they preferred to have the option of bribery than some goody-two-shoe figure that didn't smite trouble makers or win battles.
The attempts to wed men and gods into a sacred union became increasingly complicated when the preoccupations of one god so dominated the cultural scene that all other gods were strongly discouraged then outright banned.
I think it safe to say Zarathustra was more of a Nerd than he was a Saint or a Politician, and like all Nerds he was bound to be disappointed in his fellow human beings, he expected an intellect from them that shaped their world in the way that his intellect shaped the world for him. If only people would think before they acted or even if they just sat down and had a think about it before flying off the handle and setting fire to the neighboring village because a goat was missing.
One of the very first things Zarathustra found himself doing was to engage his thinking to a more linear process. Non-linear thinking was altogether far too forgiving, a mind had to look into a future and start taking responsibility for it to grasp the value of a Wise Lord. In a Monotheist understanding both a single Uncreated Creator and a beginning, Middle and End became a central feature of the answer to the question why. Things didn't go round and round, except for the Uncreated Creator, everything else had a beginning and an end. Yes indeed if you weren't ready for it, death was to be feared. And yes, it could be argued that demands for compromise from the non-linear thought merchants resulted in the end becoming a chance for the the responsible individual and the irresponsible universe to rid itself of bad people, freshen itself up and return again renewed.
Zarathustra's early attempt at dogma came up with a simple instruction that had a triadic structure. Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. Useful action started with thinking, then moved on the discussion and only then as a last resort, were neighboring villages justly burned.
Zarathustra himself was persuaded that the Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom needed a little moral support from the traditional spiritual world. If you wanted to be taken seriously you couldn't just dismiss thousands of years of war gods, animal gods, river gods, love gods the whole panapoly of male and female guardian spirits who had always had to be sacrificed to and appeased. No, Zarathustra allowed what the faithful chose to call the six Amesha Spentas. These were not gods or spirits, not at all, they were emanations from Ahura Mazda himself and as emanations they were attributes of the Uncreated Creator.
400 or 500 hundred years later Zarathustra's influence over the one god narrative had begun to wane a little. Pedants were wondering why an uncreated creator, unless he or she or it was a malignant narcissist would have anything to do with creating badness. The story tellers saw their chance, and prime among them were a collection of Shamans from North Western Persia whose influence on power brokers in the political and warrior class was considerable. To maintain Zarathustrian legitimacy they persuaded Zarathustrian leadership to resurrect to traditional gods, Mithra and Anahita. Mithra was a boy god of law and order, solar alignment, bulls, bull slaughtering and warriors. Anahita was a girl god, she represented the river of fertility that dropped down from the heavens, her name translated into : "The damp, strong and immaculate one." Like the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, while Anahita wasn't a full blown Goddess of War, she did have a lot to do driving chariots and crushing demons.
The Triad introduced by this Shamanistic clan, otherwise known to the western mind as the Magi, to this later stage of Zarathustrianism was a relationship between the wise Ahura Mazda, Mithra tough boy with a good boyish heart and Anahita who like all chariot riding goddesses who were interested in love was basically a femme fatale.
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