top kek
This reminds me of the 4chan prophecy,
when the weather cools….
the ravens will starve.
In Mumbai there is a Tower of Silence where the dead bodies are put to be eaten by ravens.
No bodies would mean hungry ravens.
(from wiki)
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Early 20th century drawing of the Dakhma on Malabar Hill, Bombay.
A dakhma (Persian: ), also known as the Tower of Silence, is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation–that is, the exposure of human dead bodies to the elements for decay in order to avert contamination of the soil with the corpses.[1][2][3] Carrion birds, usually vultures and other scavengers, would typically consume the flesh and the skeletal remains would have been left in the pit.[1][2]
Zoroastrian exposure of the dead is first attested in the mid-5th century BCE Histories of Herodotus, but the use of towers is first documented in the early 9th century CE.[1][2] The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with Earth, Water, or Fire, all three of which are considered sacred in the Zoroastrian religion.[2][3]
One of the earliest literary descriptions of such a building appears in the late 9th-century Epistles of Manushchihr, where the technical term is astodan, "ossuary". Another technical term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts of Zoroastrian tradition (the so-called "Pahlavi books") is dakhmag, for any place for the dead.
Contents
1 Rationale
2 History
3 Architectural features
4 In current times
4.1 In Iran
4.2 In India
5 See also
6 References
7 Further reading
Rationale
Zoroastrian tradition considers human cadavers and animal corpses (in addition to cut hair and nail parings) to be nasu, unclean, i.e. potential pollutants.[1][2][3] Specifically, the corpse demon (Avestan: nasu.daeva) was believed to rush into the body and contaminate everything it came into contact with,[3][4] hence the Vīdēvdād (an ecclesiastical code "given against the demons") has rules for disposing of the dead as safely as possible.[1] Moreover, the Vīdēvdād requires that graves, and raised tombs as well, must be destroyed.[1]
To preclude the pollution of the sacred elements: Earth, Water, and Fire (see Zam and Atar respectively), the bodies of the dead are placed at the top of towers and so exposed to the sun and to scavenging birds and wild dogs.[1][2][3] Thus, "putrefaction with all its concomitant evils… is most effectually prevented."[5]