I have no problem with however they do it, hope it works out for them however they do it, God willing. They care enough about something enough to carry it out anyhow. But I recall stories about modern pesticide poisoning of carrion birds that affected their funeral rites negatively. Could it be that they have the equivalent of ‘old order Mennonites’ who still use the old ways in modern times or something?
Freegards
“But I recall stories about modern pesticide poisoning of carrion birds that affected their funeral rites negatively.”
You might have read about poisoning in this thread a few years ago & applied to a small community of Zs in India: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2717607/posts#49
Could it be that they have the equivalent of ‘old order Mennonites’ who still use the old ways in modern times or something?”
That’s a small community of Zoroastrians in India. Some of them tend to still use the old ways. But that’s changing too.
Zoroastrians in India (known as Parsi or Parsees) are descendants of original Persians who escaped to India after Arab-Islam invasion of Iran 1400 years ago. They are typically a closely-knit community. They had to be over the centuries to preserve their Persian and Zoroastrian heritage and ethnic identity in India.