ZOROASTER'S STRANGE BURIAL RITES OUTLINED

FAITH EXPRESS :ZOROASTER'S STRANGE BURIAL RITES OUTLINED

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU[LAGOS,NIGERIA] 

ARTISTE IMPRESSION OF ZOROASTER,FOUNDER OF THE ANCIENT FAITH

The News office Desk of the E.N.MPaedia Express Multimedia Group of Lagos,Nigeria now hears that Zoroaster,the chief religion of the people of ancient Iran before the advent of Islam have an unconventional burial rites they perform on their death.

All over the world,a lot of people are exposed to Christians, Muslims and Jews  and even Hindus either burying their dead or cremating them as the case may be.

For the Zoroasters however the stakes will appear to go higher though .

Checks by this reporter via the Encyclopaedia Britannica says that after death, a dog preferably with four eyes will be brought before the corpse  with the rites repeated at least five times a day.

It was gathered that after the first one ,fire is then  brought into a room where the rites continues to burn for another three days until it is then removed into the tower of silence during the day time.

It stated:"The interior of the Tower of Silence is built in 3 concentric circles ,one each for men and women and children with the corpses exposed lying very naked"

"The vultures do not take long ,may be any hour or two at the most to strip the flesh of the bones of the naked corpse and these after being dried by the sun are later swept into a central well"

"formally the bones are kept in ossuary ,the astodan to preserve them from the rains and animals ,on the morning of the 4th day is marked by the most solemn observance in the death ritual for it is then that the departed soul reaches the next world and appears before the deities who are to pass judgment over it"

Zoroaster was a priest of a certain Ahura ,it is the major ancient pre-islamic faith of Iran then called Persia  and it still survives there in isolated areas and in some parts of Parsis in India.

In modern times,a few adherents have however transported the faith into the west .