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Zoroastrianism and Ancient Iranian Religion

A Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism

by Mary Boyce

An account of Zoroastrian life in the villages around Yazd, based on Boyce's fieldwork in the 1960s. It records festivals, rituals, beliefs and shrines that were then still observed. An important ethnographic study of Iranian Zoroastrianism.

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