Zoroastrians
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Zoroastrians is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between May 24, 2021 and February 29, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Zoroastrians (who are all demonic cannibals)”; “people who are “expressing Persian nationalism and a desire for an alternative to Islam, rather than strict adherence to the Zoroastrian faith"". It most often appears alongside China, FAA, @BoyanSlat.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: May 24, 2021
- Last seen: February 29, 2024
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- FAA (2 shared issues)
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- @BoyanSlat (1 shared issues)
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- @eigenrobot (1 shared issues)
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- @JackTindale (1 shared issues)
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- @literalbanana (1 shared issues)
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- @NiohBerg (1 shared issues)
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- @seanw_m (1 shared issues)
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- A16Z (1 shared issues)
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- Abbasid Caliphate (1 shared issues)
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- Abolition Of Man (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The most common jobs in Idealized Middle East are sultan, merchant, poor-but-pious tailor, fisherman, merchant, evil vizier, sorcerer, merchant, thief, person who gets hired to assist a sorcerer because they have the exact right astrological chart to perform some otherwise-impossible ritual, and merchant. Of these, merchant is number one. Whatever else you're doing - sailing, stealing, using your perfect astrological chart to enter a giant glowing door in the desert mysteriously invisible to everyone else - you're probably also dealing goods on the side. The only exceptions are Moroccans (who are all sorcerers), Zoroastrians (who are all demonic cannibals), and Jews (who are all super-double merchants scamming everyone else). Also maybe the 5 - 10% of the Middle Eastern population who witches have turned into animals at any given time.
Iranians in the comments chiming in to say this matches their experience. Also, notice the 7.7% Zoroastrian! Official Iranian numbers say there are about 25K Zoroastrians in Iran, but this suggests more like 7 million! This Wiki article suggests that the 25K are ancestral Zoroastrians, and the other 6.975 million are people who are “expressing Persian nationalism and a desire for an alternative to Islam, rather than strict adherence to the Zoroastrian faith”.
Inline links: about 25K Zoroastrians in Iran, This Wiki article