Tower of Death on the Silk Road 🇺🇿
Автор: Joseph Morgan
Загружено: 2024-02-16
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Ancient Persian influence in modern Central Asia is visible not only in its culture and language, but also in its landscape. By the Oxus river, atop a dusty hillock in a windswept desert lies one of the earliest known examples of a dakhma, or a tower of silence. These towers play an essential, if somewhat macabre, role in the disposal of bodies in the Zoroastrian tradition. Once commonplace throughout the Persianate world, this practice is now confined to a few tiny pockets of the Zoroastrian community in India, and seems even in those places to be moribund. Join me on a quest through the lonesome Kyzylkum to learn more about Karakalpakstan’s very own tower of death.
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00:00 Ancient history
00:26 Negotiations
01:20 Shipping up to Chilpik
02:42 A language barrier
04:35 A brief history of Karakalpakstan
06:15 The lonesome desert and I
07:01 Symbolism of the dakhma
08:36 Zoroastrian doctrine on the dead
10:20 Effecting an entry
11:53 Last rites
12:36 Whither vultures?
13:48 Turkmenistan
15:03 Escape
16:03 Thumbing a ride
17:50 Return to Nukus
18:54 Marriage counselling
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