Zoroastrains and Tower of Silence


	Zoroastrains and Tower of Silence
dakotayii
1-16-2008 10:15 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f763425b-6fae-42ae-a3ce-12837483394d/BF5856D9-A235-4BFF-8353-C88AA0FD7B2D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Iran/photo254497.htm" href="http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Iran/photo254497.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.trekearth.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Iran/photo254497.htm"><H1>Tower of silence</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Middle_East/Iran/photo254497.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.trekearth.com/img/68125B2A-E50A-43EF-B491-8B79C1605510" alt="Tower of silence" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603"><B>Towers of Silence</B> are circular raised structures used by <A title="Zoroastrianism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism" linkindex="6" set="yes">Zoroastrians</A> for exposure of the dead.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603">The term "Tower of Silence" is a neologism attributed to one Robert Murphy, who in 1832 was a translator of the <A title="British India" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_India" linkindex="11" set="yes">British colonial government</A> in India.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603">Zoroastrian tradition considers a dead body - in addition to cut hair and nail-parings - to be <I>nasu</I>, unclean, i.e. potential pollutants.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603"><P>To preclude the pollution of earth or fire (see <A title="Zam" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zam" linkindex="22" set="yes">Zam</A> and <A title="Atar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atar" linkindex="23">Atar</A> respectively), the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower - a tower of silence - and so exposed to the sun and to birds of prey. Thus, "putrefaction with all its concomitant evils" "is most effectually prevented."<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0" linkindex="24">[1]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603"><SPAN class="mw-headline">In India</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603">In the past several decades, the population of birds of prey on the Indian subcontinent has greatly declined,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603"> a) increasing pollution, b) growth of the cities</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603"> c) <A title="Diclofenac" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diclofenac" linkindex="50" set="yes">diclofenac</A> poisoning</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Towers_of_Silence&oldid=184560603">The few surviving birds are often unable to fully consume the bodies.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-3"><A title="" href="#_note-3" linkindex="53" set="yes">[</A></SUP></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF5856D9-A235-4BFF-8353-C88AA0FD7B2D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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