Editing Apocalypticism (section)

==Zoroastrianism==
{{Main|Zoroastrian cosmology}}
{{Further|Frashokereti}}

The [[Zoroastrian eschatology|Zoroastrian eschatological ideas]] are only alluded to in the surviving texts of the ''[[Avesta]]'', and are known of in detail only from the texts of Zoroastrian tradition, in particular in the 9th-century text ''[[Bundahishn]]''. The accompanying story, as it appears in the {{Lang|pal-latn|Bundahishn}} (''GBd'' 30.1ff), runs as follows:<ref name="Boycezora">{{citation|last=Boyce|first=Mary|author-link=Mary Boyce|title=Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices|year=1979|location=London|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|isbn=978-0-415-23902-8|pages=27–29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a6gbxVfjtUEC|access-date=2019-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624210023/https://books.google.com/books?id=a6gbxVfjtUEC&printsec=frontcover|archive-date=2019-06-24|url-status=live}}.</ref> At the end of the "[[Zoroastrian cosmology|third time]]" (the first being the age of creation, the second of mixture, and the third of separation), there will be a great battle between the [[Yazata|forces of good]] ({{Lang|pal-latn|yazata}}) and [[Daeva|those of evil]] ({{Lang|pal-latn|daeva}}), in which the good will triumph. On Earth, the [[Saoshyant]] will bring about a [[resurrection of the dead]] in the bodies they had before they died. This is followed by a [[last judgment]] through ordeal. The {{Lang|pal-latn|yazata}} [[Airyaman]] and [[Atar]] will melt the metal in the hills and mountains, and the molten metal will then flow across the earth like a river. All mankind—both the living and the resurrected dead—will be required to wade through that river, but for [[Ashavan|the righteous]] ({{Lang|pal-latn|ashavan}}) it will seem to be a river of warm milk, while the wicked will be burned. The river will then flow down to hell, where it will annihilate [[Angra Mainyu]] and the last vestiges of wickedness in the universe.<ref name="MacKenziezora">{{citation|last=MacKenzie|first=D.N. (David Neil)|title=A Concise Dictionary of Pahlavi|year=1971|location=London|publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=33}}.</ref>

The narrative continues with a projection of [[Ahura Mazda]] and the six [[Amesha Spenta]]s solemnizing a final act of worship ({{Lang|pal-latn|yasna}}), and the [[Ab-Zohr|preparation of ''parahaoma'']] from "white ''[[haoma]]''". The righteous will partake of the {{Lang|pal-latn|parahaoma}}, which will confer immortality upon them. Thereafter, humankind will become like the Amesha Spentas, living without food, without hunger or thirst, and without weapons (or possibility of bodily injury). The material substance of the bodies will be so light as to cast no shadow. All humanity will speak a single language and belong to a single nation without borders. All will share a single purpose and goal, joining with the divine for a perpetual exaltation of God's glory.<ref>{{citation|last=Taylor|first=Richard P.|title=Death and Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2000|page=312}}</ref>

Although {{Lang|pal-latn|frashokereti}} is a restoration of the [[Zoroastrian cosmology|time of creation]], there is no return to the uniqueness of the primordial plant, animal and human; while in the beginning there was one plant, one animal and one human, the variety that had since issued would remain forever.<ref name="Boycezora" /> Similarly, the host of divinities brought into existence by Ahura Mazda continue to have distinct existences, "and there is no prophecy of their re-absorption into the Godhead".<ref name="Boycezora" />