Zoroaster was an ancient Iranian; to the best of our knowledge the first prophet to announce ‘the one true God’ (whose worship has been maintained for some 4.5 millenia by Zoroastrians) and by the same ticket, progenitor of modern dominant organised religion.
zara is the name of that cruel clothes shop, whose window displays exhibit the most exciting and wonderful garments in modern Western civilisation. The displays bear no relation to the actual items for sale within. It could also be [correctly] construed to be an abreviation of the name Zarathustra, another name for the very same Iranian prophet – but more popularly used to reference the character invented by Friederich Nietzsche in his book Also spracht Zarathustra; a man who sets to brings out the greatest qualities in that highest of worldly powers, Man.
Tzara was the second name of Tristan, an adopted Swiss who fled the horrors of the looming first World War to create a society for the liberation of the purest human impulses via what some might call art. He is widely (though not unanimously) credited with the coining of the term ‘DaDa’.
The person writing this blog is none of the above.
