There is a new, open access 🚨 📖 book tracing the global history of Zoroastrianism from antiquity (6th century BCE-7th century CE) to the Middle Ages—and then into modernity. My friend & top Manichaeism scholar @babelalexandria.bsky.social has a chapter as well. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Watched « Spirited Away » by the great #Miyazaki with the fam yesterday and struggled to understand it fully. Then found this great interpretation by historian Jason Makoto Chun (Uni Hawai‘i) blog.iias.asia/pop-pacific/...
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Although Zoroastrians in the contemporary world are numerically few – estimated recently at less than 150,000 across the globe – their ancient Iranian ancestors
dawg what do you mean they were writing Assyrian in Bactria
me when im reading
analogical leveling rules everything around me
Odysseus and Athena have the most interesting relationship in the Odyssey bc it's the only one that doesn't feel formalized; everything else is a web of kinship, marriage and hospitality obligations, and then Athena is like "I love this crazy bastard because you never know what he's gonna do next!"
