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In 2015, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) granted official recognition to the Zoroastrian religion and also proceeded with the opening of three new Zoroastrian temples. The KRI's Zoroastrian community has claimed that thousands of people residing in the autonomous territory have recently converted from Islam to Zoroastrianism.
[14] [67] [70] They were not allowed to wear overcoats but were compelled to wear long robes called qaba and cotton geeveh on their feet even in winter. [58] Wearing eyeglasses, [ 66 ] long cloak, trousers, hat, boots, [ 58 ] socks, winding their turbans tightly and neatly, [ 73 ] carrying watches or rings, [ 74 ] were all forbidden to ...
The name Zoroaster (Ζωροάστηρ) is a Greek rendering of the Avestan name Zarathustra.He is known as Zartosht and Zardosht in Persian and Zaratosht in Gujarati. [14] The Zoroastrian name of the religion is Mazdayasna, which combines Mazda-with the Avestan word yasna, meaning "worship, devotion". [15]
Mexican mask-folk art refers to the making and use of masks for various traditional dances and ceremony in Mexico. Evidence of mask making in the region extends for thousands of years and was a well-established part of ritual life in the pre-Hispanic territories that are now Mexico well before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire occurred.
Yazidism, [a] also known as Sharfadin, [b] is a monotheistic ethnic religion [c] which has roots in pre-Zoroastrian Iranian religion, directly derived from the Indo-Iranian tradition. [ d ] Its followers, called Yazidis , are a Kurdish -speaking community.
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The post-Sasanian Zoroastrian Middle Persian commentaries are primarily Mazdean and with only one exception (the 10th century Denkard 9.30 [6]) do not mention Zurvan at all. Of the remaining so-called Pahlavi books , only two, the Mēnōg-i Khrad and the Selections of Zādspram (both 9th century ) reveal a Zurvanite tendency.
Performers wear brightly colored costumes and move to quick, dramatic music. They also wear vividly colored masks , typically depicting well known characters from the opera, which they change from one face to another almost instantaneously with the swipe of a fan, a movement of the head, or wave of the hand.