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  No Romans needed to explain Chinese blondes

  Uyghur boy from Kashgar (© Gusjer) This is almost like the “vanishing blonde” meme which always pops right back up. First, let’s quote from The Daily Mail [*] DNA tests show Chinese villagers with green eyes could be descendants of lost Roman legion: For years the residents of the remote north western Chinese village of Liqian have believed they were special. Many of the villagers have Western characteristics (...)
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  Le chamanisme des Kalashs

  En cela, la culture de ces éleveurs de caprins est exemplaire. Sa capacité d’adaptation a été liée à l’existence d’acteurs religieux respectés, des chamanes, qui en transe, ont toujours réussi à communiquer avec les dieux et les esprits de la nature pour fournir des explications aux problèmes de la communauté. Ils ont ainsi dicté la coutume, organisé la vision du monde, réparé les désordres collectifs et individuels, parfois (...)
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  Les Kafirs Kalash

  Les Kalash du Chitral forment un peuple du Pakistan septentrional parlant le kalashamon, une langue indo-aryenne et encore polythéiste. Plus de 100 000 au XIXe siècle, ils ne sont plus que de 3000 à 6000 individus. C’est là aussi que vivent encore deux mille Kafirs Kalash, terme qui signifie les “infidèles vêtus de noir”. Ce nom est dû aux vêtements masculins car les femmes y portent des étoffes très colorées. Ils (...)
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  Khotanese Texts

  Coin of Gurgamoya King of Khotan. Khotan, 1st century CE. Obv: Kharoshthi legend “Of the great king of kings, king of Khotan, Gurgamoya”. Rev: Chinese legend: “Twenty-four grain copper coin”. For some fifty years Sir Harold Bailey has studied and interpreted the northern area of Indian Buddhist culture in the Khotan Saka documents of Central Asia dated between the fifth and tenth centuries AD. In the VIIth (...)
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  Good eggs, good fish, good meat!

  «Simple», I reply, «Monotheism. The single God, Ahura Mazda in combat with Ahriman, the Lie. And three simple tenets: Humata, Hukta, Huvareshta “good thoughts, good words, good deeds”, sometimes translated by the venal as good eggs, good fish, good meat!» He is impressed. He tells me that he was even more impressed with the musical works of a Parsi composer called Kaikushru Sorabji [2] who wrote an interminable piece (...)
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  Yemenis are Not Arab

  All this had been well planned by the French and the English colonial academia and diplomacies, who knew that all the aforementioned evils needed a mattress of cultural and national disintegration to be embedded upon; the anti-Yemenite conspiracy (part of the anti-Ottoman Empire and anti-Orient scheme) was then implemented through blackmailing, perfidy, vicious ignominy and unprecedented hatred of Yemen’s (...)
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  همبستگی تیره‌‌های ایرانی زیر درفش فرهنگی نوروز

  برای بزرگ کردن عکسها، بر رویشان کلیک کنید. عمونوروز و حکایت او برنامه به دلیل ازدحام بیش از حد با ۳٠ دقیقه تأخیر آغاز گردید. پس از مراسم رسمی آغازی، فضای سالن با صدای توپ سال تحویل و نواخته شدن موسیقی نوروز پر گردید. دوشیزگان ایرانی که لباس سنتی اقوام گوناگون را در بر داشتند هر کدام یکی از سین‌های سفرۀ هفت‌سین را در دست گرفته و از در ورودی در پشت سر شرکت‌کنندگان وارد سالن شدند که با تشویق پیوسته و بدون وقفۀ شرکت‌کنندگان به مسیر خود ادامه دادند و پس از چرخیدن بر (...)
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  Eminent Parsis

  Bakhtiar K. Dadabhoy The author. The Parsis came to western India from Iran more than 1,000 years ago to escape religious persecution at the hands of Arabs. As per the oral tradition, the local ruler Jadi Rana, concerned at the arrival of strange people, presented the Parsis a bowl of milk filled to the brim, denoting symbolically that he had no place for them. A nice Parsi priest added sugar to the milk, (...)
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  Zoroastrians today

  We have been working on this film for over 4 years. We have shot footage in Boston, Bombay, Chicago, Iran, New York and Vancouver. We would like to thank all the individuals who have generously donated to this project. This hour-long documentary focuses on the assimilation of the Zoroastrian community into North America. The film highlights the challenges faced by members of this ancient Persian religion today. (...)
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  Powai’s “Parsi” Connection

  Reprinted with the kind authorization of Planet POWAI. The remains of “Framaji Kavasji” bungalow on ADS Marg, as seen today. At the time, Powai lake supplied two million gallons of water to Bombay. Today, on the ADS Marg near the Powai Police stn on the lake side remains a dilapidated cottage whose wooden pillars jut on the pavement on the widened JVLR section II. This is the sole remnant of the Framji (...)

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