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The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay 1927

1927

The learned author of the article says :— "After the Australian and Negro had been differentiated the rest of the human family attained a higher plane of develoment associated with bleaching of the skin." The theory of the "bleaching of the skin" appears to be a physical impossbility and is inconsistent with the indubitable fact of primitive Eastern Aryan history viz. [...] But the main historical feature of the system is that the Parsi dead body is disposed of on the top of the nearest hill or eminence and in a building resembling an ordinary tower awl that this system has its obvious origin as will be shown hereafter in the practice of the Iranian ancestors of the Parsis of the earliest paleolithic ages living in caves of depositing their dead on the tops of the m [...] Thus the exposure to the sun of the dead body plays a most important part in the Parsi system of disposal of the dead just as the worship of the sun first and then the fire plays a most important part in the religious system of the Parsis both customs referring to the sun and originating in the remotest paleolithic ages of the Iranian cavemen. [...] The fourth group somwhere in the NortWest developed the distinguishing blonde traits that are the obtrusive characteristics of the Nordic race." The subject of the formation of the continents and mountains on the face of the earth as bearing upon the question of the origin of the human race thereafter requires to be treated of separately. [...] That the Parsi system of the disposal of the dead is a survival of the cave-dwelling days of the race is demonstrated by the Parsi and Iranian ideas associated with the dead.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
82
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120155
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-ii unknown view
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Swastika
703-709 S. S. Mehta view
Champa-Shashti and Its Rites
709-711 S. S. Mehta view
The Comparatively Remotest Primitive Antiquity of Aryan Civilization and Culture. Gross Prejudice of the West Against the Aryan and for the Non-Aryan East—Its Causes
712-727 R. K. Dadachanji view
The Comparatively Remotest Primitive Antiquity of Aryan Civilization and Culture. Part I. Survivals Amongst the Parsis of Customs and Ideas of the Paleolithic Ages Especially Their Systems of the Disposal of the Dead and Fire Worship
728-750 R. K. Dadacranji view
The Belief about the Dubbâ or the Drowning Spirit in India. Its Parallel in Ancient Irân
750-754 Jivanji Modi view
Some Marriage Rites among the Hindus Sanctioned by Custom as Well as Scriptures: Part I
754-766 S. S. Mehta view
A Note on the Custom of the Interchange of Dress Between Males and Females
766-776 Jivanji Modi view

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