Zoroastrian echo of Margush: India celebrates "Festival of lights"
In India, the main holiday of the Indians "Diwali", known in the world as the "Festival of Lights", takes place. The celebration goes on for 5 days, but due to the peculiarities of the calendar based on the lunar cycle, the date of its holding varies. This year, the carnival of "lights", took off on October 19.
Legends say that the feast of Diwali embodies the supremacy of Light over Darkness, and the Good over Evil. Therefore, traditionally these days, Indians light fires, candles, lanterns, give souvenirs, and in the evening fireworks are launched.,
This "fiery" celebration is also widely celebrated in a number of Asian countries, in the United States and Great Britain, mainly by the Indian diasporas, as well as representatives of Hinduism - the third world religion after Christianity and Islam by the number of followers. Therefore, this festival is considered to be the focus of the unity of the Indian communities abroad.
Zoroastrians show the same veneration of fire and the Sun - and nowadays in the cult temples of the followers of this philosophical and ethical teaching, lights burn round the clock all year round.
The historical homeland of the Zoroastrians is Great Khorasan, and the ancestral homeland, where the protozoarastrism originated - the country of Margush, which flourished in antiquity on the territory of modern Turkmenistan
Archaeological data of recent years indicate that Margush and Bactria of the Bronze Age represented the very environment in which Zoroastrianism developed. Here the Hymns for the glory of the One God were sang by the founder of this religion Zarathushtra, preaching that pure thoughts, words and deeds help the Light and Good to triumph over the forces of Darkness and Evil.
It is really very similar to the world view of those who celebrate the Diwali holiday these days, isn't it?
