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  2. Navjote - Wikipedia

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    The Navjote (Persian: سدره‌پوشی, sedreh-pushi) ceremony is the ritual through which an individual is inducted into the Zoroastrian religion and begins to wear the sedreh and kushti. The term navjote is used primarily by the Zoroastrians of India (the Parsis), while sedreh pushi is used primarily by the Zoroastrians of Iran.

  3. Persecution of Zoroastrians - Wikipedia

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    Zoroastrians were subjected to public discrimination through dress regulations [66] [67] – not allowed to wear new or white clothes, [67] and compelled by enactments to wear the dull yellow raiment already alluded to as a distinguishing badge.

  4. Zoroastrianism - Wikipedia

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    The Zoroastrian Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has reported that as many as 100,000 people in Iraqi Kurdistan have converted to Zoroastrianism recently, with some community leaders speculating that even more Zoroastrians in the region are practicing their faith secretly.

  5. Kushti - Wikipedia

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    The navjote/sedra-pušun ceremony of initiation is traditionally the first time Zoroastrians wear the kushti. [8] Every man and woman who has been initiated into the faith must wear a kusti, according to Zoroastrian praxis. Each boy or girl dons a white undershirt (Pahl. šabīg, Pers. šabi, ṣudra, ṣedra, Guj.

  6. Tower of Silence - Wikipedia

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    Interior view of dakhma Early 20th century drawing of the dakhma on Malabar Hill, Mumbai. A dakhma (Persian: دخمه), otherwise referred to as Tower of Silence (Persian: برجِ خاموشان), is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human corpses to the elements with the purpose to enable their decomposition), in order to avoid ...

  7. Zoroastrian festivals - Wikipedia

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    Six irregularly-spaced seasonal festivals, called gahanbars (meaning "proper season"), are celebrated during the religious year. The six festivals are additionally associated with the six "primordial creations" of Ahura Mazda, otherwise known as the Amesha Spentas, and through them with aspects of creation (the sky, the waters, the earth, plant life, animal life, humankind).

  8. Fire temple - Wikipedia

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    Zoroastrians insist, though, that these restrictions are not meant to offend non-Zoroastrians, and point to similar practices in other religions. There was a custom in India that Zoroastrian women were not allowed to enter the Fire Temple and the Tower of Silence if they married a non-Zoroastrian person.

  9. Hannya - Wikipedia

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    The mask that represents a woman who has become a demoness is hannya, and hannya is also called chūnari or nakanari (中成) in contrast to namanari. [3] The mask that represents a demoness who becomes even more furious and looks like a snake is a jya (蛇), meaning 'snake', and the one that is even more furious is shinjya (真蛇), meaning ...