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- poisoning has led the Parsi community to explore alternatives to standard dakhmas. In the Iranian Zoroastrian tradition, the towers were built atop hills...
- dead bodies were left on top of those open towerswhich are also called dakhmas -- to be slowly disengaged or picked apart by desert vultures. Under ancient...
- exposed to the elements and scavenger birds on stone structures called Dakhma. Sky burials are endemic to Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia...
- (so-called dakhmas) in and around the town, particularly on the summits of the surrounding mountains and hills. There are also remains of Zoroastrian dakhmas in...
- public at the Oklahoma City Civic Center by a theistic Satanist group called Dakhma of Angra Mainyu (Church of Ahriman). The host to be used in the Black M****...
- to be consumed by birds of prey on top of a flat roofed tower called a dakhma. They then put the clean bones into ossuaries, a number of which have been...
- temple was built, the land belonged to the Parsi community. There were 5 Dakhma's (Parsi final resting place) existing in the vicinity. There was a lot of...
- Tibetan open-air excarnation funerary practice. Sky burial may also refer to: Dakhma, a Zoroastrian open-air excarnation funerary practice Space burial, a space-age...
- Medrese of Erezhep Halifa and Hill of Zhomart K****ap (ancient Zoroastrian dakhma).[citation needed] Nowadays, Mizdakhan functions also as a graveyard and...
- Chilpyk Zoroastrian Tower of Silence (Dakhma), 1st century BC – 1st century AD...