>>2862084Sure. It also thought that human urine was a holy substance, and banned menstruating from getting out of her doghouse-like compartment until their menstrual cycle ended.
People who think Zoroastrian Persia was some progressive liberal paradise are ignorant and got spoonedfed lies by the same insufferable and deranged Pahlavist diasporoids and their neocon masters.
Same goes for those who think Zoroastrian Persia was peak Persia too, when the Achaemenid empire didn’t even have Persian as its lingua Franca (that position went to Aramaic) and was far less centrally Persian compared to Islamic Persia, who at least had enough soft power to the point that Persian in the medieval and early modern period held a prestigious status from Bosnia to the Malay archipelago, to the point that even in the Ottoman Empire Turkish language and culture was seen as retrograde and peasant-coded compared to Persian and European culture.