As we all know, I bought a Mazda 2 Sport. I assumed it was a Japanese term because it is a Japanese car company. Turns out, I was wrong. This is what my father told me when I told him I was buying a Mazda. I am planning to sell my car fort myers so I can buy a new one with better features soon.
“A long time ago, there was a sort of Golden Age of religion, when a whole lot of religions popped up – Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism – and these were all in different parts of the world, but they all happened within 500 years, no one knows why. Now, in Zoroastrianism, it is believed that there are two gods: Ahura Mazda, the God of Light and Goodness, and Ahura Daeva, the God of Darkness and Evil (where we get the word “Devil” from). The man who started the Mazda company, a man named Matsuda, wanted a name for his company that captured a positive quality but also referred back to his name. So he chose Mazda, the Zoroastrian word for lightness and goodness.”
Huh. Didn’t see that coming. So, of course, my car is named Ahura. The Ahura Mazda.