Editing Zoroastrianism (section)

=== Manichaeism ===
Zoroastrianism is often compared with [[Manichaeism]]. Nominally an Iranian religion, Manichaeism was heavily inspired by Zoroastrianism{{citation needed|date=April 2024}} because of [[Mani (prophet)|Mani]]'s Iranian origin, and it was also rooted in prior [[Middle-East]]ern [[Gnostic]] beliefs.<ref name="Nigosian-1993" />{{sfn|Boyce|2001|p=1, 77}}<ref name="Grabbe-2006" />

Manichaeism adopted many of the [[Yazata]]s for its own pantheon.{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}} Gherardo Gnoli, in ''The Encyclopaedia of Religion'',<ref>Gherardo Gnoli, "Manichaeism: An Overview", in ''Encyclopedia of Religion'', ed. Mircea Eliade (NY: MacMillan Library Reference USA, 1987), 9: 165.</ref> says that {{qi|we can assert that Manichaeism has its roots in the Iranian religious tradition and that its relationship to Mazdaism, or Zoroastrianism, is more or less like that of Christianity to Judaism}}.<ref>Contrast with Henning's observations: Henning, W.B., ''The Book of Giants'', BSOAS, Vol. XI, Part 1, 1943, pp. 52–74:
{{blockquote|It is noteworthy that Mani, who was brought up and spent most of his life in a province of the Persian empire, and whose mother belonged to a famous Parthian family, did not make any use of the Iranian mythological tradition. There can no longer be any doubt that the Iranian names of Sām, Narīmān, etc., that appear in the Persian and Sogdian versions of the Book of the Giants, did not figure in the original edition, written by Mani in the Syriac language}}</ref>

The two religions have substantial differences.<ref>{{harvnb|Zaehner|1961|pp=53–54}}.</ref>