Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The book chronicles the fictitious travels and speeches of Zarathustra. Zarathustra’s namesake was the Persian founder of Zoroastrianism, usually known in English as Zoroaster (Avestan: Zaraϑuštra). Nietzsche is clearly portraying a “new” or “different” Zarathustra, one who turns traditional morality on its head. He goes on to characterize “what the name of Zarathustra means in my mouth, the mouth of the first immoralist:”