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Mihragan

Zoroastrianism

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observance in Sāsānian Iran

In ancient Iran: Zoroastrianism
…and on the day of Mihragan (the 16th day of the seventh month), the sacred fire was displayed to the faithful (wehden) at nightfall from some vantage point. Under the Sāsānians the injunction not to pollute the earth by contact with corpses but to expose the dead on mountaintops to…
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