Does the name of the car manufacturer Mazda have anything to do with Zoroastrianism?

Answer 1

About as much as Nike the shoe company has with the greek goddess of victory - they stole the name cause it sounded nice.

Answer 2

With all due respect to the asker and the answeres (?) of this question the chances of this happening, on the basis of the phonetics of a word coincidence half way around the World is infinitely small. This is especially so because the words are not really pronounced the same..

Answer 3

I have a Mazda, I don't think so! It's just a Brand Name!

Answer 4

No. Matsuda is a Japanese last name, probably the last name of the founder of the company, and they made it mazda to make it sound more flashy

Answer 5

Well, you got it in one -
Ahura Mazda is the Avestan language name for an exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian religion that was subsequently declared by Zarathustra (Zoroaster) to be the one uncreated creator of all (God).

Ahura Mazda is 'Auramazdāh' in Old Persian, 'Hourmazd' or 'Hormizd' in Middle Persian as well as Parthian and 'Aramazd' in the Armenian language. New Persian language usage varies, but 'Hourmazd', 'Hormuzd', 'Ohrmazd' and 'Ormazd' are common transliterations.

The Zoroastrian faith is described by its adherents as Mazdayasna, the worship of Mazda. In Zoroastrian tradition, to worship a lesser divinity is to worship Ahura Mazda, since all the divinities are but a manifestation of the Creator.

Additionally -
In Manichaeism, the name Ohrmazd Bay ("god Ahura Mazda") was used for the primal figure Nāšā Qaḏmāyā, the "original man" through whose fall the original Light became tainted with dark matter.

Answer 6

Sadly, no. Mazda in Japanese means something else entirely.

Not Ahura Mazda.

Answer 7

Azura Mazda was the god of light. That's why the Mazda lamps were named as well.

Answer 8

No. In Japanese the word 'Mazda' means, 'noodle soup'.

Answer 9

possibly