Zoroastrianism, homosexuality & LGBT issues – a lecture recording Posted by: Ervad Marzban J. Hathiram Roj Avan Mah Shehrevar, 1383 Yz. As announced earlier, a function was held at the Mahella Patel Agiary at Grant Road, Mumbai, on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 to commemorate the 4th death anniversary of Vada Dasturji Meherji Dastur Kekobad Meherji Rana of Navsari. After the Jashan
Read moreAnimal Sacrifices Are They Mentioned In The Pak Avesta? The word ‘sacrifice’ means giving up or forsaking of a thing, a quality, and it could also mean the killing of an animal. Our Mazdayasni Zarathushti Religion is fundamentally based on the purity of body, mind and soul. It emphasizes Universal Brotherhood (Ardafravash) and extends it to all the Kingdoms
Read moreAs the child of a female Zoroastrian I cannot follow the religion, even if I wanted to. Yet if it does not survive, the traditions of my Parsi ethnicity go with it As the child of a female Zoroastrian, I was not permitted to follow in my mother’s footsteps and undertake the Navjote; whether I am even allowed to call
Read moreZarathushtra’s Gathas Dr. Pallan Ichaporia Mainz, Geramany Zarathustra’s Gathas today count among the most difficult products of world literature. This is not merely because we are so remote from them. The conciseness of the wording, the ambiguity of the inflectional endings, the abundance of technical terms that do not recur even in the Younger Avesta, the apparent attempt to depict by means of
Read moreHello friends: In 1951, Dr. Irach J. S. Taraporewala, an amazing Avesta, Pahlavi, Sanskrit, etc. scholar, published his opus – The Divine Songs of Zarathushtra – a 1166 page masterpiece. I was a student at that time in our beloved M. F. Cama Athornan Institute and Dr. Taraporewala was the second Principal of the Institute from 1930 to 1940. When his
Read more29 August 2013 Ovum Zoroastræum: ‘Zoroaster’s egg’ This may seem a rather esoteric title for an Asian Studies blog, but it is hardly surprising in the context of the post-renaissance scholar Athanasius Kircher (1601/2–1680). Kircher, based in Rome from 1635, where he officially taught mathematics at the Jesuit Collegio Romano, was famous as an inventor of the most complex
Read moreWHY ELECTRICY/ELECTIC DEVISES AND MOBILE PHONES ARE NOT PERMITTED IN ATASH BAHRAM’S & AGYARIS ATASH AND ELECTRICITY ARE MUTUALLY OPPOSED. By Pervin Mistry (This article is an appeal to the trustees of Atash Bahrams/Adarans in particular, and to the community in general. It is written with the intent to create awareness regarding the divine status and spiritual function of Atash
Read moreSaturday, Oct 26, 2013, 12:31 IST | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA Kinjal Desai Meher Medora presents a book on Amdavad Parsis which her husband began & she completed – Piyush Patel/DNA Parsis may be dwindling in numbers. But, they stand out in all their shining glory. A member of the community passed on to posterity the richness of Parsi
Read moreParsi community to teach their fold how to make the sacred cord Mumbai Mirror | Oct 10, 2013, 02.21 AM IST Sayali Karkare Anxious to preserve a dying art of their diminishing community, the Bombay Parsi Punchayat is promoting kusti weaving classes for those in their fold; 67-year old Dolly Mistry’s sessions have been advertised by the Punchayat in the latest issue of the Parsi newspaper Jam-e-Jamshed.
Read moreMr. K. E. Eduljee has posted a monograph on the “Farohar/Fravahar Motif. What Does It Represent? Use of Icons & Symbols in Zoroastrianism”, on the Zoroastrian Heritage website at http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/reference/FaroharMotif-Eduljee.pdf http://www.heritageinstitute.com/zoroastrianism/reference/FaroharMotif-Eduljee-Abridged.pdf The monograph is available in two versions: a complete version with notations and source texts, and an abridged version without notations and source texts. Mr.
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