The Ship, the Milk, and the Sugar
How a Handful of Zoroastrian Refugees Built One of the Most Extraordinary Diaspora Communities in Human History eFireTemple.com The Flight Sometime between 785 and 936 CE — the exact date is debated, but the story is not — a group of Zoroastrian refugees boarded a ship on the coast of Iran and sailed across the Arabian Sea toward India. They were running.
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How a Handful of Zoroastrian Refugees Built One of the Most Extraordinary Diaspora Communities in Human History eFireTemple.com The Flight Sometime between 785 and 936 CE — the exact date is debated, but the story is not — a group of Zoroastrian refugees boarded a ship on the coast of Iran and sailed across the Arabian Sea toward India. They were running. Behind them lay everything: their homeland, their temples, their ancestral villages, the graves of their parents, the land where Zarathustra had walked, the empire where their faith had been the state religion for over a thousand years.
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Yasna · Avesta