Good sized Zoroastrian community around Mumbai (Bombay) in India. They call them Parsis (Parsi like Farsi - Persians).
They practice Sky Burial - leaving their dead out (in a walled enclosure on high ground) to be eaten by vultures.
“They practice Sky Burial - leaving their dead out (in a walled enclosure on high ground) to be eaten by vultures.”
Cool. Can we do that to the DemocRats? It would be very GoT-ish.
“They practice Sky Burial”
As an interesting aside, sky burial is being curtailed due to the Indian vulture crisis. There is a NSAID called Diclofenac which is extremely poisonous to vultures. They started using this in livestock in India, which put it in the food chain for vultures causing the vulture population to collapse. This is causing all kinds of problems and has forced the Zoroastrians to stop sky burials. With nothing to eat the bodies, they take too long to dissipate.
That said, Zoroastrians are not chopping heads or bombing anyone, so I am fine with them. Congratulations to them on their new temple.