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A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead, particularly to scavenging birds for the purposes of excarnation.
Zoroastrian exposure of the dead is first attested in the mid-5th century BCE Histories of Herodotus, but the use of towers is first documented in the early 9th century. The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with earth or fire, both of which are considered sacred.
One of the earliest literary descriptions of such a building appears in the late 9th-century Epistles of Manushchihr, where the technical term is astodan, "ossuary". Another technical term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts of Zoroastrian tradition (the so-called Pahlavi books) is dakhmag, for any place for the dead. This Zoroastrian Middle Persian term is a borrowing from Avestan dakhma, of uncertain meaning but related to interment and commonly translated as "grave". In the Avesta, the term is pejorative and does not signify a construction of any kind. In the Iranian provinces of Yazd and Kerman, dakhma continues as deme or dema. Yet another term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts is dagdah, "prescribed place". The word also appears in later Zoroastrian texts of both India and Iran, but in 20th-century India came to signify the lowest grade of temple fire. In India the term doongerwadi came into use after a tower of silence was constructed on a hill of that name.
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Why Dokhmenishini is Ordained in Zoroastrianism? https://goo.gl/BZkysz Join us on facebook: https://FB.com/ZoroastrianLibrary/ https://FB.com/groups/zarathushtra/ Zoroastrianism is a religion founded in ancient times by the prophet Zarathushtra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster. Zoroastrianism was the dominant world religion during the Persian empires (559 BC to 651 AC), and was thus the most powerful world religion at the time of Jesus. It had a major influence on other religions. It is still practiced world-wide, especially in Iran and India. To quote Mary Boyce, "The prophet Zarathushtra, son of Pourushaspa, of the Spitaman family, is known to us primarily from the Gathas, seventeen great hymns which he composed and which have been faithfully preserved by his community. These are not...
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Here, from the Hanging Gardens of Mumbai (built over the city's main reservoir on Malabar Hill), you can see the vultures circling the Towers of Silence that are located close by in the adjacent forested area. Orthodox followers of the ancient Zoroastrian religion believe that their bodies should not pollute the elements, so upon death they place their bodies on the platforms in the Towers of Silence to be consumed by nature (usually vultures). Though they are tucked away in a small forested area amidst some of Mumbai's most prime real estate, actually visiting these towers is totally prohibited on religious grounds --but from this adjacent location you can see from the vulture's activity that there are ceremonies happening that day. There's a tower perfectly lined up with this pa...
24 August 2001 This emotive report reveals that in this close community, the battle over burials symbolises a far wider crisis for the Parsis, who may themselves face extinction. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Join us on facebook: https://FB.com/ZoroastrianLibrary/ https://FB.com/groups/zarathushtra/ Zoroastrianism is a religion founded in ancient times by the prophet Zarathushtra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster. Zoroastrianism was the dominant world religion during the Persian empires (559 BC to 651 AC), and was thus the most powerful world religion at the time of Jesus. It had a major influence on other religions. It is still practiced world-wide, especially in Iran and India. To quote Mary Boyce, "The prophet Zarathushtra, son of Pourushaspa, of the Spitaman family, is known to us primarily from the Gathas, seventeen great hymns which he composed and which have been faithfully preserved by his community. These are not works of instruction, but inspired, passionate utterances, many of the...
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'The Towers of Silence' centers around the everyday life of Dinshah Magol as he moves between the two very different worlds of religious and modern, secular life. We follow him as he matures in the religious and secular schools and prepares to finally undertake his first priestly ritual. There are only two religious schools for priests left in the world, with a total of twenty-six students. We capture Dinshah at his religious school in Dadar, Bombay. We see him and his classmates wake in the yawning spaciousness of a dorm room built for a much larger occupancy; we listen to the lonely echo of footsteps as he moves down the school’s eerily empty corridors, and experience his moments of excitement and drudgery while he studies for religious exams, memorizing lengthy passages written in a fou...
Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual in the Abandoned Towers of Silence
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The ancient religion is still practiced today in parts of Iran as this functioning Fire Temple shows. However, the near by Towers of Silence have past out of use.
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Towers of Silence (2006) by Rolf Hind. Performed by Zubin Kanga. Performed in the solo recital, Piano: Inside/Out in the Out Hear series at Kings Place, London. www.zubinkanga.com facebook.com/ZubinKanga twitter.com/ZubinKanga Program Notes Towers of Silence I. Arise II. Pursuit III. Sleep Now IV. Tower V. Stare at the Sun The Towers of Silence are the burial mounds of the Zoroastrian (Parsi) religion. According to this most ancient religion's precepts about purity, bodies are left on them to decompose or be picked at by vultures after a series of elaborate rituals. There are no absolute parallels between my piece and these structures, just some poetic ideas and resonances: I wanted to create a piece that was constantly transforming itself, not just in terms of the notes and their ...
00:00 - 05:55 From The Abyss They Shine 05:55 - 13:05 Towers Of Silence 13:05 - 20:50 Necromantic Revelations 20:50 - 27:40 Domini Canes 27:40 - 34:55 A Rebirth In Sterility 34:55 - 42:50 Horned Shadows Rise 42:50 - 48:15 Rousing The Serpent 48:15 - 53:37 Thirteen Cauldrons Boil
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Beyond bombay high on malabar hill
In a lush garden lie the secrets unrevealed
Once death has fed it's hungry...
And now the sun takes back the life it gave
An ancient race that has no ashes not a trace
Five and one rest here, an eternal reunion
Once death has fed it's hungry...