อิหร่านโบราณ "พระอินทร์" กลายเป็นปีศาจ ดินแดนที่เทพกับอสูรสลับข้าง
Summary
Millennia ago one Aryan people split. One branch went down into the Indian subcontinent and composed the Vedas; the other settled on the Iranian plateau.
The Indian asura is the same word as the ahura in Ahura Mazdā, Iran’s supreme god — while Indra appears in the Zoroastrian texts as a demon.
The Buddha addressed this same war of devas and asuras in the Dhajagga Sutta, which sits inside the Chinabanchorn that Thais recite daily.
Key points
Our gods are their demons
The same word inverts completely on the far side of the mountains, which is itself evidence that it was once one story.
Language is the evidence that cannot be faked
The link between asura and ahura is etymology, not interpretation.
Zoroaster inverted the warrior god deliberately
This was religious reform rather than confusion, which says something about the society he wanted to change.
The Dhajagga Sutta is already in the chant
What sounds like a distant myth turns out to be inside something many people recite every day.