Sacred Flame, Stolen Fire: Zoroaster vs Prometheus

Two civilizations, one flame. Zoroastrian Persia guarded fire as a divine signature; ancient Greece told it as a theft with an eternal price.

Let us begin with a line from Heraclitus, the philosopher of Ephesus who lived in the sixth century before our era: "This world-order, the same for all, no god or man has made. It always was, and is, and will be: an ever-living fire, kindled in measures and going out in measures." For Heraclitus…