Zoroastrians in yazd - German
Zarathustrier in Yazd
Iran Natural history museum, Yazd city موزه تاريخ طبيعي يزد ايران
January 30, 2018 (Persian calendar 1396/11/10)
Yazd province (استان يزد)
Yazd city (شهر يزد)
Iran Natural history museum, Yazd city
موزه تاريخ طبيعي يزد ايران
Iran-e-Aziz – City of Yazd - شهر یزد
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Iran/Zoroastrian ''Tower of Silence'' Yazd Part 50
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A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead, particularly to scavenging birds for the purposes of excarnation.
Zoroastrian exposure of the dead is first attested in the mid-5th-century BCE Histories of Herodotus, but the use of towers is first documented in early 9th century.156–162 The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with earth or fire, both of which are considered sacred.
Zoroastrian tradition considers a dead body (in addition to cut hair and nail parings) to be nasu, unclean, i.e. potential pollutants. Specifically, the corpse demon (Avestan: nasu.daeva) was believed to rush into the body and contaminate everything it came into contact with, hence the Vendidad (an ecclesiastical code given against the demons) has rules for disposing of the dead as safely as possible.To preclude the pollution of earth or fire (see Zam and Atar respectively), the bodies of the dead are placed atop a tower and so exposed to the sun and to scavenging birds. Thus, putrefaction with all its concomitant evils... is most effectually prevented.
In the Iranian provinces of Yazd and Kerman, dakhma continues as deme or dema.:206 Yet another term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts is dagdah prescribed place.206 The word also appears in later Zoroastrian texts of both India and Iran, but in 20th-century India came to signify the lowest grade of temple fire.206 In India, the term doongerwadi came into use after a tower of silence was constructed on a hill of that name.The English language term Tower of Silence is a neologism attributed to Robert Murphy, an early 19th-century translator of the British colonial government in India.Wikipedia
Yazd (Chak Chak Zoroastrian religion) Part 48
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Chak Chak: Nikbanou, a heroine of the faith who according to tradition took shelter in the mountain and prayed for help. Miraculously, the mountain was said to have opened up and given protection to the princess, the youngest daughter of the last king of the Persian Sassanian empire.Adherents of the Zoroastrian religion from around the world gathered at a mountain shrine in central Iran this week to celebrate their Persian roots, praying in remembrance of a princess who fled the seventh century Arab invasion.
Chak Chak (Persian: چك چك – Drip-Drip, also Romanized as Chek Chek; also known as Chāhak-e Ardakān and Pir-e Sabz (Persian: پیر سبز) is a village in Rabatat Rural District, Kharanaq District, Ardakan County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
The village consists of a pir perched beneath a towering cliff face in the desert of central Iran. It is the most sacred of the mountain shrines of Zoroastrianism. Located near the city of Ardakan in Yazd Province, Chak Chak serves as a pilgrimage point for pious Zoroastrians. Each year from June 14–18 many thousands of Zoroastrians from Iran, India and other countries flock to the fire temple at Pir-e Sabz. Tradition has it that pilgrims are to stop the moment they see the sight of the temple and continue their journey on foot the rest of the way.
In Zoroastrian belief, Chak Chak is where Nikbanou, second daughter of the last pre-Islamic Persian ruler, Yazdegerd III of the Sassanid Empire, was cornered by the invading Arab army in 640 CE. Fearing capture Nikbanou prayed to Ahura Mazda to protect her from her enemies. In response to Nikbanou's pleadings, the mountain miraculously opened up and sheltered her from the invaders.
Notable features of Chak Chak include the ever-dripping spring located at the mountain. Legend has it that these drops are tears of grief that the mountain sheds in remembrance of Nikbanou. Growing beside the holy spring is an immense and ancient tree said to be Nikbanou's cane. Legend also has it that a petrified colorful cloth from Nikbanou was also visible in the rocks, although pilgrims have since removed it.The actual temple of Chak Chak is a man-made grotto sheltered by two large bronze doors. The shrine enclosure is floored with marble and its walls are darkened by fires kept eternally burning in the sanctuary. In the cliffs below the shrine are several roofed pavilions constructed to accommodate pilgrims.
Iranians have a great love of gold
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Tehran, 8 March 2007
1.Wide exterior of Gold Bazaar, downtown Tehran
2.sign reading Goldsmiths Bazaar
3. gold bazaar
4. gold store display
5. golden bracelet and jewelry in shop window
6.Woman looking at golden jewelry
7. woman's face looking at golden jewelry
8.Women in front of gold jewelry store
9. gold bazaar
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Zahra Akbari, customer: We really enjoy buying and wearing golden jewels and it is beneficial not to pay for fake jewels. Buying gold is also economically profitable because at the time of need, like when we want to buy a house, we can sell them.
11. woman's hand trying on a golden ring
12. jeweler and costumer
13. golden rings
14. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hassan Javaherian, jeweler and salesman: Iranian works of golden jewelry are very beautiful and are profitable compared to foreign ones regarding the wage paid for making them for example. I think they can compete with foreign ones. The Iranian Gold Union is now planning to stop the importation of foreign golden jewels because Iranian ones are much better.
15. Wide of gold bazaar
16. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Maryam Farhoudi, costumer: Islam religion advises its followers to wear perfume and gold while saying the prayers. Various people use gold. Whether those who use it as an ornament or those who wear it because the religion advises.
17. Maryam looking at golden jewels in shop window
18. jeweler's hand carving on gold
19. jewelers making ornamental jewels out of gold
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20. gold exhibition in Tehran
21. Sign reading (English) Goldiran at exhibition
22. necklaces being displayed at exhibition
23. woman looking at necklaces to necklaces
24. exhibition
25. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Mahmoud Gholami, gold and jewels seller: Gold and jewelry have always been a symbol of Iranian culture. There is always an amount of gold and jewelry in every Iranian house. In the world, Iran stands in the first or second place in using it.
26. Woman purchasing golden jewelry at exhibition
27. woman's hand wearing a gold ring
28. Girls and women speaking with a saleswoman at exhibition
29. golden jewels in window
30. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Faranak Eskandari, spectator: Despite the sanctions imposed on Iran after the Islamic Revolution, Iranian gold industry has flourished I believe. Before the revolution, gold and jewelry was mainly imported and there were not noticeable Iranian products of gold back then.
31. golden bracelets
32. Various of golden jewels
33. Wide of gold exhibition
Tehran - 08.03.2007 - AP Television News
34. house's window guarded by iron bars
35. Wide of house protected by iron bars for fear of theft
36. barred window
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Gold is considered to be extremely attractive by people of the world - and Iran is not an exception.
Iranian women, particularly, are very interested in golden jewelry, for some their biggest hobby is shopping for gold.
They find it more fun than any shopping for clothes, for example.
STORYLINE
There are various reasons for women to love gold.
Zahra Akbari, a middle-aged woman from Tehran believes buying gold is more profitable than buying fake jewelry.
She says gold can be sold for a profit when unexpected problems come up.
The Iranian gold industry has progressed over the years and has found its place in the world market, according to Iranian jewelers
They believe that the quality of Iranian golden jewelry means that the Iran market can compete with foreign competition.
Hassan Javaherian, a jeweler in Tehran 's Goldsmiths Bazaar, claims that Iranian jewlers earn less than their foreign counterparts so the profit margins are wider.
Religion is among the other reasons for Iranian women to love wearing gold.
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Nishapur or Nishabur is a city in the Razavi Khorasan Province, capital of the Nishapur County and former capital of Khorasan, in northeastern Iran, situated in a fertile plain at the foot of the Mount Binalud. It had an estimated population of 239,185 as of 2011 and its county 433,105. Nearby are the turquoise mines that have supplied the world with turquoise for at least two millennia.
The city was founded in the 3rd century by Shapur I as a Sasanian satrapy capital. Nishapur later became the capital of Tahirid dynasty and was reformed by Abdullah Tahir in 830, and was later selected as the capital of Seljuq dynasty by Tughril in 1037. From the Abbasid era to the Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia and Eastern Iran, the city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center within the Islamic world. Nishapur, along with Merv, Herat and Balkh were one of the four great cities of Greater Khorasan and one of the greatest cities in the middle ages, a seat of governmental power in eastern of caliphate, a dwelling place for diverse ethnic and religious groups, a trading stop on commercial routes from Transoxiana and China, Iraq and Egypt.
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OMG Trip 6: Iran - Yazd
They have let us to film in bakery and even they gave us a freshly baked bread. It is so hot I have a problem to hold it!
Here you can see how they prepare real iranian bread. Can you see how it is growing?
Good morning from Yazd. This city is our most eastern point in Iran. Right know we are in centre of the city which is typical with narrow streets and houses with clay facade. So let´s go see
In Yazd water museum there were a oldest water clocks in the world. We did not find out how they work but at least we know that they are existing. There was a model of building where they stored blocks of ice during the summer. And it is told that ice lasted whole summer in there. Why to have a freezer than?
Zuzka bought beautifull handmade aerrings.
For the first time we book better hotel even we had our own bathroom after 9 days. And it costs 14€ per night.
We are at the place where zoroastrians used to burry their dead. Zoroastrizm was found about 1700 years B.C. and it is considered one of the oldest religion ever foundes. It spread mainly in Iran and India. We can tell we are in very unique place. Our fitness training failed us! We will do some squats back in hotel :D
We walked up to the tower of silence where zoroastrians burried deads. Only grave digger had acces up to the tower. In zoroastrizm you can not burry into the the ground or burn the bodie they had a different system. They have led the bodies lying on the top of tower a wait until voltures eat them and after this they put all the bones to the hole and desolve them with some acids. It is weird to talk about it but what can we do...
Now we are going up to the top of another tower. Down there you can see classical cemetery. They have build it after city population groved up to 50 000 and volture system of burrying people was not so effective.
With tower of silence we fineshed our visit of Yazd and at this moment we can not wait about way to Shiraz. Which will take two days and going to be really interesting
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Iran/Yazd (Mud Ancient City,Walking-Tour) Part 45
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Yazd:
Yazd is a city in central Iran and the capital of the Yazd province. It is an ancient city dating back to the Sassanian Period (224-651 AD).
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Masjid-e Jame
Atashkadeh – Zoroastrian fire temple
Amir Chakhmakh Complex
A traditional roofed alley, represents the old fabric of the city
Masjid-e Jame (Friday Mosque), Masjid-e Jame street, which runs off Imam St. Dating back to the fourteenth century, it is well worth a visit. It is an example of finest Persian mosaics and excellent architecture. Its minarets are the highest in the country. Admire it at night when it is lit up.
Yazd Water Museum, Imam St corner. House converted to a museum with a lot of information about the Canat water distribution system. Contains nice cool underground rooms. Free.
Takyeh Amir Chakhmagh (Amir Chakhmagh Complex). Originally a mosque, a caravanserai, a tekyeh, a bathhouse, a cold water well, and a confectionery, this imposing structure fronts a square in the old town, opposite the water museum. You can pay a small amount to go inside and climb to the top, giving good local views, including of a nearby badgir (water reservoir with wind towers). The square has interesting fountains and is nice at night.
Cistern of Fatemeh-ye-Golshan. Easily-viewed reservoir with 4 badgirs (wind towers).
Amir Chakhmagh Mosque (Old Mosque). Mosque next to the Amir Chakhmagh Complex
Market Square Clock, Imam St.
Atashkadeh (Zoroastrian Fire Temple), Kashani Road (a few kilometres from the old town; a taxi might be best). The fire on the inside has supposedly been burning since AD 470. Free but donations appreciated.
Dakhmeh (Zoroastrian Towers of Silence). Huge circular walls on top of hills, where the dead were left to be picked clean by vultures. A quiet, serene place
Alexander's Prison. Neither built by Alexander the Great nor a prison, but a 15th-century domed school which is quite an interesting sight with a cafe in the 'prison room'. Guides say the deep well in the middle of its courtyard was built by Alexander the Great and was used as a dungeon although this is not confirmed. Also called Ziaiyyeh school.
Dowlat Abad Gardens. With a building with a beautiful large badgir. One of nine Persian gardens inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Four Iranian cultural items enter UNESCO’s list
Four cultural items from Iran `have been inscribed in the regional section of the Memory of the World Program of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Latest News reports.
Iran marked the registration of this cultural heritage during a ceremony held on October 27, the World Day of Audiovisual Heritage.
The inscribed items include Kitab al-masalik wa-al-mamalik (Book of Roads and Kingdoms) by Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi that belongs to the 10th century and Vandidad, which is one of the chapters of Avesta, the sacred book of the followers of Zoroaster.
The other two items are Documents and Photos of Karbala, which is a collection of official government reports and documents dating back to 1191-1413 of lunar calendar and Jan-e Marjan, which is a documentary about the marine environment in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman.
Some 301 items from 102 countries have been inscribed in Memory of the World Program and Iran has the most items inscribed in Asia region after China and Korea.
Iran has inscribed seven items so far that placed the country the 8th in the world and 3rd in the region.
Memory of the World Program is a part of UNESCO's projects that endeavors to promote public awareness, sustainable conservation, and universal access to documentary heritage of humanity.
The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO.
The committee selects from among the submitted works based on their world significance and outstanding universal value.
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