wormhole-eater2:Tower of Silence In Zoroastrianism: instead of cremating the dead (fire is sac
wormhole-eater2:Tower of Silence In Zoroastrianism: instead of cremating the dead (fire is sacred, a corpse is impure) or burying (so as not to “foul the soil”):A dakhma (Persian: دخمه), also known as a Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation–that is, the exposure of human dead bodies to the elements for decay in order to avert contamination of the soil with the corpses. Carrion birds, usually vultures and other scavengers, would typically consume the flesh and the skeletal remains would have been left in the pit. -- source link
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