#parsis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parsis, aggregated by home.social.
-
On stage last Thursday, in Paris.
Photo by Frida. -
interesting side note:
the decline of #vultures led to a crisis in a #religion
some of you know of the #parsis in #india, the #zoroastrians of ancient #persia
they practice sky burial. the parsis can't bury or cremate: earth fire and water are sacred. the dead must go to the air
the towers of silence is where the parsis would put their dead, and they would be mostly consumed by vultures
but suddenly all the vultures that the parsis relied on for centuries, vanished:
https://www.npr.org/2012/09/05/160401322/vanishing-vultures-a-grave-matter-for-indias-parsis
-
A really awesome piece of reporting by #99pi / Lasha Madan. I love how the storytelling unfolds the connection between our ongoing ecological crisis and religious traditions.
-
This 99% invisible episode is fascinating. It starts with some background on Zoroastrianism death rites, goes to the decline of vultures in India, and then the decline of Zoroastrian Parsi communities.