Note 166 — Chapter V · THE ZEND-AVESTA.

Clement, who is supposed to have written in the first century of the Christian era, claims that the original name was Nebrod, but that “the magician being destroyed by lightning, his name was changed to Zoroaster by the Greeks on account of the living Ζωσαν stream of the star (ἀστέρος) being poured upon him.”—Clementine Homilies, IX, Chap. 5.