Talk:Towers of Silence
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I added three new links. Also of interest is a 2001 letter from the Karachi Parsi Anjuman at the Traditional Zoroastrian page[1], which says it has had two dakhmas without any vultures since 1956, using only the sun's rays. This has a correlation with the Mumbai Panchayat's decision to turn to solar power. And also significant of the fact that unlike other tradition's (i.e. Tibetan), which expose their dead, the vultures serve little religious significance in of themselves. Rather it is, of course, the purifying rays of the sun. Khirad 06:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
"the Iranian Zoroastrians discontinued usage of the Towers and now bury their dead in more traditional cemeteries."
This is a bizarre sentence. It says firstly that they have been doing this for thousands of years, and then says that burial is more traditional. Errr... what? Although it may be traditional for whoever wrote the sentence, it clearly isn't traditional for the Zoroastrians. Should this be changed? 88.105.254.93 20:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
