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- Tower_of_Silence abstract "A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead, particularly to scavenging birds for the purposes of excarnation.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. The doctrinal rationale for exposure is to avoid contact with earth or fire, both of which are considered sacred.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. This Zoroastrian Middle Persian term is a borrowing from Avestan dakhma, of uncertain meaning but related to interment and commonly translated as \"grave\". In the Avesta, the term is pejorative and does not signify a construction of any kind. In the Iranian provinces of Yazd and Kerman, dakhma continues as deme or dema. Yet another term that appears in the 9th/10th-century texts is dagdah, \"prescribed place\". The word also appears in later Zoroastrian texts of both India and Iran, but in 20th-century India came to signify the lowest grade of temple fire. In India the term doongerwadi came into use after a tower of silence was constructed on a hill of that name.The English language term \"Tower of Silence\" is a neologism attributed to Robert Murphy, a translator for the British colonial government of India in the early 19th century.".
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- Tower_of_Silence wikiPageWikiLinkText "Dakhmenashini".
- Tower_of_Silence wikiPageWikiLinkText "The Tower of Silence".
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- Tower_of_Silence hypernym Structure.
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- Tower_of_Silence comment "A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead, particularly to scavenging birds for the purposes of excarnation.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.".
- Tower_of_Silence label "Tower of Silence".
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Q1157739.
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- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Дакма.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Category:Towers_of_Silence.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Věže_mlčení.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Dachma.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Πύργοι_της_σιωπής.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Silentoturo.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Torre_del_silencio.
- Tower_of_Silence sameAs Isiltasunaren_Dorreak.