“One of my former students, recently tasked with the writing of bio-ethical guidelines for a teaching hospital in southern California, noted that among the Parsis in India the child-woman ratio—a key gauge of fertility—is about 85 per 1,000, whereas the… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“Some scholars maintain that we should not even talk of “Zoroastrianism” in terms of a religion with a systematized collection of beliefs and praxes,… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“It is in the context of this mid-Sasanian era edict reported by Elishe that the myth of Zurvan as hypostatized “Time” is outlined. Another fifth century CE Armenian, Eznik of Kølb, narrates the myth in more details and with some variations. It describes Zurvan as progenitor of both Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu. This myth of a common progenitor seems… — Jenny Rose Copy Share
“The coins and inscriptions of the Kushan king Kanishka (r. c. 127–151 CE) use Bactrian, a Middle Iranian language that was written in Greek… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“Iranian Zoroastrian immigrants who seek asylum in India under the aegis of the BPP must produce an identity card issued by a local anjuman (Zoroastrian council) within Iran; they must possess a sudreh and kusti (the sacred shirt and cord of the initiate), and be able to recite in Avestan the two cardinal prayers of the Ahuna Vairya and the… — Jenny Rose Copy Share
“The notion that the term “Zoroastrian” refers to religious conviction, rather than lineage and birth, is reflected in a resolution passed by the North American Mobeds (priests’) Council (NAMC) at its thirteenth AGM in 2000. This resolution reads in part: “A ‘Zoroastrian’ is a person who believes and follows the teaching of Zoroaster. It is recognized that ‘Zoroastrianism’ is a… — Jenny Rose Copy Share
“Those who describe themselves as traditionalist may outnumber other groups, but they espouse more than one normative Zoroastrian theology. The theological spectrum is most… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“For centuries, the ancient Zoroastrian method of disposal of the dead has been a source of curiosity among outsiders: from Herodotus and Strabo in… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“This is evidenced by the discovery of many ossuaries, or “bone-holders,” dating from the fifth- to the eighth-centuries CE. These held the collected sun-dried… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The name Assara Mazaash was found in an early first millennium ritual text from the library of the neo-Assyrian king Assurbanipal (r. 669–c. 630… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The term “Neo-traditionalist” is sometimes now applied by outside academics to those Parsis/Iranis who adopt a theological understanding of Zoroastrianism informed by western scholarship,… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“These were all composed in a language known as Old Avestan, which is similar in syntax, meter, and vocabulary to the Old Indic of… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The Zoroastrian religion addresses the problem of the source of evil partly through the notion of ethical dualism, which operates at the level of… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
