VMs: flowers & stars: Zoroastrian stuff

[mesinik@xxxxxx]

Flowers & stars are Zoroastrian stuff and the VMS is full of these
So, where could  this Zoroastrian religion survive to the XVth century?
Once, it's stronholds were Iran, Central Asia. The last one surely kept even
some organised, "orthodox" Zoroastrian cult pretty long during the Islamic era
(it was okeey, if you paid some extra taxes). Cannot tell, how long exactly and
after all, the VMS doesn't look like a kind of "orthodox" stuff. But this
depends of course... for me it is easier to believe in some kind of "folklore
influenced by Zoroastrian religion" inside the VMS.

BTW, somewhere I have heard, in the Zoroastrian era in Iran, they had quite good
calculations about how the Earth and the rest of visible planets are rolling
around the Sun ... pretty long time before Kopernik ... could anybody confirm?

Sometimes I have thought, the strange signs on the first VMS-page could be
Zoroastrian altars (with more or less "ethernal fire") ... but birds could still
be a better match for these (one of them carrying something).


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