VMs: flowers & stars: Zoroastrian stuff

[Knox Mix <knoxmix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

mesinik@xxxxxx wrote:
> 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?

They knew about a certain comet (Gochihr).

... Zarathushtra asked Ohrmazd: 'How much time remains until the time of 
Frashegird, that is the making of Frashegird and the Future Body?' 
Ohrmazd said: '3,000 years'.  (Pahlavi Rivayat, ch 25. based on tr. of 
A.V. Williams, 1990.)

NOTE: Frashegird (Av. 'Frasho-kereti', lit. 'making wonderful') refers 
to the renovation of the universe, the last judgment.

I figure that was AD 2002. I might be a few years off.

Way off topic and I am sorry I sidestepped your question but I thought 
you should know.

Regards ....... Knox



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