>>> In any case it's hard to see why this is news It's fascinating! The "psycho-history" style preservation, and indeed flourishing, in Contemporary America of

>>> In any case it's hard to see why this is news It's fascinating! The "psycho-history" style preservation, and indeed flourishing, in Contemporary America of endangered cultures of the Ancient East. We see a bit of it with ex-pat Turkish communities thriving in NY & PA. And I suspect with the recent influx of Afghan refugees we'll see a renaissance in ancient sources of Pashtun tradition, once freed from the shackles of mythos, and able to engage in free inquiry into their exegesis. ML of "dead" language corpora is key. It was instrumental in decoding Syriac texts. And I suspect data mining of insights into ancient wisdom and digital archeology advances will only uncover more truth, more controversy. "Is this the real Islam" indeed! Zoroastrian Global Glossary https://fezana.org/glossary/ https://fezana.org/glossary/