Zoroastrianism
In Our Time: Religion
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Is the Oral Culture as Accurate as a Written Culture?
In ancient times, the body was weighed down so that wild creatures could not drag it to nearby stream or on to arable land. The cremation of the corpse is totally forbidden because it would pollute fire. Raptures, because the bodies are exposed on open towers, animals cannot get in. Not wild dogs, nor wolves, or any of the you are absolutely right to correct me on that. Inthe modern practice, but in ancient times, this idea may have come from the earliest.
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