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Sight seeing |
Sight seeing |
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| Day 1 |
Tehran- Yazd |
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| Day 2 | Yazd- Chak Chak | |
| Day 3 | Chak Chak | |
| Day 4 | Chak Chak | |
| Day 5 |
Chak Chak and .... |
Zoroastrian
Zoroastrian Tour Package
Approach through
the great desert to Chak Chak
The primary religion in Iran
today is the Shia sect of Islam but the
far older faith of the prophet Zoroaster
is still openly practiced, particularly
in the central and northwestern regions
of the country. Zoroaster's name in its
original form is found in the sacred
scripture the Avesta as Zarathushtra. It
is not possible to say exactly when he
lived but contemporary scholarship has
mostly agreed upon the dates of 660-583
BC, with his birthplace being in the
region of northwestern Iran now known as
Azerbaijan. Similar to other great sages
of archaic times, Zoroaster's life is
part history and part legend. Tales are
told of signs in the sky announcing his
coming, of marvels and omens attending
his birth, and of acts of power that he
performed as a young boy. Around the age
of twenty he withdrew from the world to
seek the divine through study, wandering
and solitary meditation in remote
mountain areas. At the age of thirty he
experienced the first of seven mystical
visions from which he developed his
spiritual philosophy and initiated his
ministry. In these visions, an angelic
entity by the name of Vohu Manah
appeared to Zoroaster and escorted him
to the throne of the Creator, Ahura
Mazda. The wisdom teachings he received
from Ahura Mazda are given in the form
of seventeen hymns, the Gathas,
contained in the Avesta scripture. The
Zoroastrian religion has three central
commands of Good Thouood Words, and Good
Deeds.
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