[WackyKat]

Zoroastrianism had a tremendous impact on both Judaism and Christianity-especially on Christian ideas about the end of the world.

The Parsis leave the bodies of their dead on the top of towers to be eaten by vultures.

Cool, and very-eco-friendly!

[wideminded]

Traditionally, Zoroastrians do not bury or burn dead bodies or throw them into water, but expose them to vultures.

A news article a couple of years ago said that there is a problem with this now because a deadly disease which no one understands has decimated the population of vultures that normally carry out this task.

[Cronos]

Also the idea of Angels -- very similar to the Zoroastrian concept of angelic beings, although the Z angels (as depicted on the Persian monuments) have angel wings, men's bearded faces and bull's bodies.

[Cronos]

Though, let this be a lesson -- any culture that's infiltrated byIslam Dies and disappears. THink of the glory of Peria, Parthia, Media -- a civilisation stretching back to the very beginnings of history. The first wine growing culture, close to the first writing culture (Sumer in present day Iraq). The first tolerant Empire which Alexander was lucky enough to come upon when there was a weak King and got an Empire falling in his lap. This noble culture got decimated byIslam, like the Christian cultures of Byzantine, Egypt, Syria, Assyria, etc got decimated.

If we're not careful, the same will happen to us here in the US.