The Saoshyant (Avestan for "one who brings benefit") is Zoroastrianism's future savior, who completes the Frashokereti, the final renewal of the world.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Yasht 19.88-96; Bundahishn 30, 34
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What Is the Saoshyant?
What Is the Saoshyant?
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The benefactor born from the prophet's seed, who comes to make the world wonderful.
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The Avesta names him Astvat-ereta and says he raises the dead and abolishes evil (Yasht 19.88-96).
Imported citation, not independently checked: Yasht 19.88-96
In the Gathas, the oldest layer of the Avesta attributed to Zarathustra himself, saoshyant is not yet a singular messiah.
Imported citation, not independently checked: Gathas, Yasna 46.3, 48.12
The savior-shaped hole in the Western imagination has an old Iranian neighbor, but neighbor is not ancestor, and we will not pretend the family record is clearer than it is.
Imported citation, not independently checked: M. Boyce, A History of Zoroastrianism; A. de Jong, Traditions of the Magi
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