Word: zoroastrian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magnetic personality have made him a favorite with women; and Nancy Kovack, a former aide to Dave Garroway on the Today show and 1968-69 Emmy Award nominee for her performance on the TV series Mannix; he for the second time; in a Methodist service followed by a Zoroastrian ceremony; in Los Angeles...
Brahms & Dogfish. Indeed, he seems to have been destined for ein Heldenleben. He was born into the Parsi sect, whose members he calls "the Jews of India"; they are descended from a group that fled Persia 1,300 years ago so that they could continue to practice their Zoroastrian faith. The Parsis, 150,000 strong, are business, commercial and social leaders of Bombay, noted for their receptivity to Western culture...
...unbeliever while worshiping at a fire temple. Within a century after his death, his teachings seem to have been accepted as the state religion by the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes. Although the faith was driven underground after Persia's conquest by Alexander the Great, Zoroastrian ideas circulated widely in the Middle East. Almost certainly the magi who came to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus were Zoroastrians, and many scholars believe that echoes of Zoroastrian theology can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Revived by the Sassanid dynasty during the 3rd century A.D., Zoroastrianism died out once again when...
...most unique burial custom: instead of being interred or cremated, the bodies of the dead are stripped naked and left on "towers of silence" to be devoured by vultures. Four of these walled, bone-filled areas, tended by humble corpse bearers and barred to all others, including Zoroastrian priests, occupy sites on the outskirts of Bombay...
Peshotan Anklesaria, who is offering the History of Zoroastrianism at the Center for World Religions, is the first University instructor to be a Zoroastrian priest...