The central drama of Zoroastrian cosmology: Ahura Mazda (Wise Lord) and Angra Mainyu (Destructive Spirit) in perpetual opposition. Not a balance — Zoroastrianism insists good will ultimately prevail — but a real struggle requiring conscious participation. Hex 11 (Peace) and Hex 12 (Standstill) are the I-Ching's closest structural analogue: the same six lines in opposite arrangement. Hex 11 — heaven below earth, mutual exchange, flourishing. Hex 12 — heaven above earth, separation, stagnation. The I-Ching encodes as cosmological structure what Zoroastrianism narrates as cosmic war. But there is a difference: the I-Ching treats the alternation as inevitable and cyclical, while Zarathustra insists on a final victory. Peace is not a season. It is a choice that must be made at every moment.