to as Tower of Silence (Persian: برجِ خاموشان), is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human...
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Yazd Tower of Silence (Persian: برج خاموشان یزد) or the Yazd Dakhma (Persian: دخمه یزد) is a Zoroastrian tower of silence 15 kilometres south east of Yazd...
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The Towers of Silence is the 1971 novel by Paul Scott that continues his Raj Quartet. It gets its title from the Parsi Towers of Silence where the bodies...
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tower of silence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Tower of Silence, or Dakhma, is a Zoroastrian structure used for exposure of the dead. Tower of...
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The Tower of Silence is a novel by Indian author Phiroshaw Jamsetjee Chevalier, allegedly written in 1927 and recovered from a lost manuscript by historian...
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The Tower of Silence (German: Der Turm des Schweigens) is a 1925 German mystic melodrama directed by Johannes Guter and starring Xenia Desni and Nigel...
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The Tower of Silence is the second studio album by Steve Adey. The album was released in the UK by Grand Harmonium on 26 November 2012. It was announced...
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Parsis (redirect from History of the Parsis)
act of charity by the deceased on earth. The Tower of Silence in Mumbai is located at Doongerwadi at Malabar Hill. In Karachi, the Tower of Silence is...
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Steve Adey (category Year of birth missing (living people))
player" The Tower of Silence was released in November 2012 to positive critical response. The Tower of Silence made The Sunday Times Album of the Week and...
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Excarnation (category Archaeology of death)
burials" in parts of Asia, the Zoroastrian "Tower of Silence", and Native American "tree burials". Excarnation is practiced for a variety of spiritual and...
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