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See Zipas. Zara (zä'rä; It. pron. dzä'rä). [Slav. Zadar , L. Jadera.] A seaport, capital of Dalmatia, situated on the Adriatic in lat. 44° 7' N., long. the Avesta (see these names) is that they relate to a time life. This place must have been in or near the region from which the Vedic Hindus went southward into the valley of the Indus, and the Iranians westward: for the language of the Gathas, and even the primitive types of meter employed in the Avesta, stand very near to the Vedic, and in the absence of special proof to the graphical vicinity. Such proof is not found in the lecontrary closely resembling dialects prove a close geogends that place the birth of Zarathushtra in Rhage or Shiz, both in Media. Mazdayasnianism, reaching its complete development in West Iran, could not in the view of its West Iranian supporters have originated except there in the chief seat of its culture. Supposing the religion to have originated in Bactria and reached its culmination in Media the distance and the development of doctrine and practice in the Avesta, regarded as a whole, would imply a considerable age for the first beginnings. Roth puts them at about 1000 в. с. Primitive Zarathushtrianism had a brief creed, very different from the complicated prescriptions of the Vendidad and the extravagances of the Yashts. Varuna, the highest of the Adityas, the sons of Aditi, the infinite, as the chief god of light, and especially of the illuminated night heaven, was common to both branches of the Aryan race before its separation into Indian and Iranian. With Varuna were a ociated the highest spiritual conceptions. These the Hindus soon lost in an ever-increasing tendency to personify and worship the various powers of nature, while the Iranians had a longer and firmer grasp of them. The development of the spiritual side of Varuna into the conception of Ahuramazda, the Spiritual Wise One, or the Wise Spirit, or at least the clear expre ion of this view, was the e ential fact in the work of Zarathushtra. As Varuna becomes Ahuramazda, the other Adityas become the Amesha Spent as or Amshaspands, the Immortal Holy Ones, the expre ion of his qualities and his ministering spirits. From the dominance of the supreme god of light grew a recognition of an opposing principle of darkne ; and as light symbolizes truth, this principle found a natural designation in Druj or deceit, the same as Angro Mainyush or Ahriman. The dethroned devas (gods) of the popular religion, who were no longer to be worshiped in conjunction with the supreme Ahuramazda, were regarded as the servants of Druj, and were degraded to the rank of de mons or devs. Good thoughts, good words, and good actions are the object of moral striving. Holine is rewarded by immortality and heaven. The tillage of the soil is the best of actions. The elements-earth, air, fire, and water, but especially fire - receive homage as creations of Ahuramazda. Zarathushtra lived under a king, Vishtaspa, who in the epic is king of Bactria. There is absolutely no reason for identifying him with Hystaspes, father of Darius Zarathushtra had several sons and daughters. According to the Shahnamah, he was murdered at the altar by Turanians who stormed Balkh. All attempts to con nect him with Hebrew influences are groundle . Zarephath. See Sarepta . 15° 14′ Ε. It has considerable coasting trade; and is noted for the manufacture of maraschino. Its cathedral Zaribrod. See Tsaribrod . is an interesting 13th-century structure. The Porta Marina or di San Chrysogono is a Roman triumphal arch of one graceful opening, flanked by Corinthian pilasters supporting an entablature with inscription Statues, now gone, formerly stood on the top. Zara was a Roman town; was held in turn by Hungary and Venice; was taken by the Venetians aided by French Crusaders in 1202; was acquired by Venice in 1409; pa ed to Austria in 1797; Zara (zärä). A character Congreve's play and was held by France 1805-13. Population (1890), 11, 496. "The Mourning Bride." It is she who says: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.