I’m afraid that I’ve been having a problem copying and pasting the photos from Jackie’s emails. When I’ve figured it out I’ll update the blog. In the meantime:
We are in YAZD an adobe built desert city. Has been here for over 2000 years and before thenArabs invasion they were a strong hold of Zoroaster (. Trains)
They had some odd customs. They do not wish to. Pollute the earth, they were and still are a very green religion. They do not bury their dead but rather they take them to the tower of silence where you die and also where you are born. Your dead body is placed up the mountains left to rot and be scavenged. The man who takes care of this cannot come into the community, even to this day this custom is followed but as others who are not members found finding dead bodies in the mountains troubling they now bury the body in lead lined coffins so they will not pollute the earth. There still community’s of these people living in Yazd and other part of the world You cannot convert to Zoarastrianism.. so slowly their numbers have dwindled .
We went to some of their old sites, climbed up and down over yellow rock. They pray five times a day but do not face Mecca but rather face a source of light and the find light within. So where ever the sun is, or the moon or the stars etc.They keep a fire going 24/7 365/6 days in the
Temple of
Fire.
They stres that you live on only two big principles.. with thought fill your life with good deeds or the opposite. BAd deeds mean not going to paradise.
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