Azadeh pashootanizadeh
Abstract
Zoroastrians of Iran are considered the oldest natives of Iran. After the Arab attack on Iran, they lived in Khorasan for some time and then went to Yazd and Kerman. But some of them moved to India. Qajar period, which coincides with the birth of Zoroastrian-embroidery art (Zartoshti-duzi), Zoroastrians ...
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Zoroastrians of Iran are considered the oldest natives of Iran. After the Arab attack on Iran, they lived in Khorasan for some time and then went to Yazd and Kerman. But some of them moved to India. Qajar period, which coincides with the birth of Zoroastrian-embroidery art (Zartoshti-duzi), Zoroastrians from India, who were mostly cloth merchants, came to Iran and provided a lot of help to Iranian Zoroastrians. As some Indian merchants married Iranian Zoroastrian women and described to their wives about the peacock (a bird that is not native to Iran) and its beauty. Zoroastrian women's mental image of this bird caused various forms of peacocks in Zoroastrian embroidery art. The peacock was very important in the art of the Sasanian era and is reminiscent of the goddess Anahita in Zoroastrianism. Repetition of this pattern symbolically in the clothes of women Zoroastrian artists is a way of reviving their religious thoughts. In this article, an attempt has been made to study the art of Zoroastrian embroidery, which is a native art of Iran, in its birthplace, and to discuss the reasons for the appearance of the peacock motif in this art.
Manizheh Maghsoudi; fariba Seddighi
Abstract
Health, illness, and therapeutic practices are cultural components, so the meaning of these concepts varies throughout different cultures. There are different ethnic and religious groups in Iran, and this diversity makes the different meanings of these concepts. In this paper, we focused on the Zoroastrians ...
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Health, illness, and therapeutic practices are cultural components, so the meaning of these concepts varies throughout different cultures. There are different ethnic and religious groups in Iran, and this diversity makes the different meanings of these concepts. In this paper, we focused on the Zoroastrians of Yazd using the ethnographic method such as participant observation, interview and documents to understand how they construct health, illness, and therapy concepts. We used the conceptual lens of healing, the sacred phenomena, and cultural symbols to analyze our findings. Our study showed that Zoroastrians believed AngraMainyu create illness in the past but nowadays their belief have changed AngraMainyu has no external truth and is only in the human mind, and if human follow AngraMainyu, illness creat. we can try to follow teachings Zoroaster like wisdom, truth and we can overcome the illness by following them. Zoroastrians also perform ritual curing, herbal curing, and Mantra therapy.
