Another significant aspect of Iranian ritual culture is aza-dari, mourning ceremonies, which are full of ancient elements. This is interesting and in a way ironic, since crying per se is frowned upon in Zoroastrianism, Iran’s main religion in pre-Islamic times. In fact, religious aza-dari rituals, which involve much crying and sometimes self-flagellation and recur every year, seem to have been borrowed from the Sumerian, Semitic, and Mediterranean cultures with which Iranians came into contact, along with the myths and mythological figures associated with those rituals.
..In looking at the mourning rituals present in Iranian culture [edited], it is possible to recognize their Mesopotamian roots. One of the central themes in Mesopotamian mythology is that of an important goddess—known by several different names—whose son dies or is killed and then reborn each year, symbolizing the annual regeneration of plant life so important in this agricultural society.
**One of the main components of the annual ritual cycle connected with this myth was mourning and lamentations over the death of this divine son, who was considered to have died the death of a martyr. Women were prominent in these mourning ceremonies, screaming and beating themselves in grief just like the goddess herself who has been deprived of her son. **Yet these grief rituals, dramatic as they were, at the same time served as a kind of ushering in of the martyred god’s subsequent rebirth. Groups of villagers with blackened faces, representing the martyred god, would appear to herald his return. In some cases they would wrap up a tree in a shroud, then raise it up and recite prayers and invocations.
In this way we can see that Iran’s mourning rituals have developed over time from ancient—and in this case, non-Iranian—precedents and taken on new meanings and association in different historical contexts.
but i learnt from a more knowledgable brother here not to open threads regarding shia. i took that advice, my own interpretation of it was too much like calling them, to come and wreck. islam is not limitted to what the limitted space shia religion rederives its zoastarianism from. they'll just attempt to spread Mesopotamian ideas, encourage discontentment, and its infuriating to read
This thread and other relating threads are proof that by doing matam on his own chest, a azdaar is actually slapping yazeed's and his followers faces. Thats why they keep coming back and complain abt Azaadari.
This thread and other relating threads are proof that by doing matam on his own chest, a azdaar is actually slapping yazeed's and his followers faces. Thats why they keep coming back and complain abt Azaadari.
Well Yazid died ages ago, when he was alive, haters couldn't cause any harm to him.
This thread and other relating threads are proof that by doing matam on his own chest, a azdaar is actually slapping yazeed's and his followers faces. Thats why they keep coming back and complain abt Azaadari.