Before Judah even knew fire, Mazda’s flame burned bright. Zoroastrianism lit the cosmos with Asha—truth, raw and eternal. Yasna 51:6 sang it: “Asha’s reward is the Best Existence”—pairidaēza, a paradise you earned, not begged for, over a thousand years before Christ. Yasna 30:3 laid it out: two spirits—good and evil—your choice, your fate. Souls crossed Chinvat, the judgment bridge—Vendidad 19 carved it in stone: the righteous hit the House of Song, the liars fell to torment. Yasna 62:3 roared, “Fire purifies with Asha”—flames weren’t just light; they were law, burning away druj, the lie. Mazda’s priests tended Atar, kept it alive—cosmic truth, not tribal trash. This wasn’t some petty god’s tale—it was the world’s backbone, ancient as dirt, forged by Mazda’s hand.Judah had nothing. Before Persia kicked their door down, their afterlife was a hole—Sheol, a gray dump where everyone rotted, no matter what. Ecclesiastes 9:10 spits it: “No work, no thought in Sheol”—no reward, no justice. Numbers 16:35 shows YHWH torching rebels—storm-god temper, no cosmic plan. Psalm 82:1 has him bickering with other gods—petty, not pure. No paradise, no judgment—just a tribal bully with thunder. Mazda’s flame shone; Judah’s flickered—until they saw Persia.In 539 BCE, Cyrus—Mazda’s man—busted Babylon and let Judah loose. They didn’t thank him—they stole from him. Nehemiah 2:8 drops pardes—Persian pairidaēza, snatched, no credit. Daniel 12:2 wakes “some to everlasting life”—Chinvat’s path, post-Persia. Zechariah 3:1-2 births Satan—Angra Mainyu’s twin, ripped off and tied to YHWH’s leash. Isaiah 45:7 brags, “I create evil”—Mazda’s dualism (Yasna 30:3) smashed into one god’s fist. They stood in Persia’s shadow—Persepolis altars blazing, Behistun’s stones shouting Mazda’s law—and swiped it all. Paradise, Satan, judgment—Judah took Mazda’s gold and ran, slapping YHWH’s name on the loot.The Rabbis finished the job—buried Mazda deep, turned Asha into druj. Sanhedrin 10:1 says, “All Israel gets paradise”—no earning, just blood. Shabbat 31a builds Gehenna—House of Lies, stolen, renamed. Yoma 69b tames Satan—Angra Mainyu’s wild fire snuffed to a pet. They took Mazda’s rituals—fire and water cleansing (Nirangistan 1.5) shrunk to Leviticus 14’s wash-ups, no cosmic kick; Haoma’s sacred drink (Yasna 9) dulled to Kiddush (Berakhot 35a)—and drained the soul out. Asha’s choice (Yasna 55:2) got crushed—Berakhot 28b muddies, “All’s from heaven”—druj’s lie crowned YHWH king, Mazda’s truth torched.The proof’s in their hands—Qumran’s 1QS 3:20-25 screams “two spirits,” straight from Yasna 30:3—Judah had it, ditched it. 4Q544’s angel wars match Fargard 19:30’s Yazatas—stolen wings. Persepolis altars smoked near Judah—Pasargadae’s flames burned Mazda’s law—Ezra 6:10 twists Persian kings to YHWH’s side, no nod. Behistun’s “Mazda hates liars” stands tall—Judah’s Isaiah 45:7 grabs it, lies. Kiddush sips Haoma’s ghost; Gehenna apes the House of Lies—Judah’s theft is carved in their texts, their stones, their silence. They didn’t build this—they broke in.eFireTemple calls it what it is—theft, pure and simple. Mazda’s flame—pairidaēza (Yasna 51:6), Chinvat (Vendidad 19), fire (Yasna 62:3)—lit the world before Judah’s YHWH thundered. Sheol was empty (Ecclesiastes 9:10)—Judah had squat ‘til Persia showed up. They stole paradise (Nehemiah 2:8), judgment (Daniel 12:2), Satan (Zechariah 3:1-2)—then buried Mazda under druj’s dirt (Sanhedrin 10:1). The evidence—Qumran, altars, their own words—nails ‘em cold. Judah’s a thief in prophet’s robes, YHWH a storm-god in stolen flames. eFireTemple stands—name the crook, rip off the mask, take back Asha’s fire. Mazda’s light burns—Judah can’t snuff it. The theft’s exposed—now we reclaim.