Kudos to Berjis Desai for his brilliant piece "How Zoroastrian was Persia?” (Parsiana, July 7-20, 2023). What is truly heartwarming is that there are some Parsis with a good grasp of legends pre-dating Zarathushtra’s sojourn on earth as well as the fate of the Zoroastrian religion during the Achemenid, Parthian and Sasanian Persian empires.
It is shocking that there are some priests in our community who trumpet Gayomard not as a mythical figure but as a real man; they tout mythical characters such as Shah Faridoon ("a great exponent of white magic”) and other magical, imaginary figures (whose "legends bristle with......