Image if the capitals of the two Pakistani Punjabs were also the first two Indo-Persian cities in the world. Either way, it would be amazing to see Uch given the love it deserves, and be developed into a shining city.
India and Iran have a lot to gain by working together. Both nations are in close proximity to each other as well. Pakistan is a threat to both of our nations as such we have been allies for a long time. Under the new administrations, we plan to keep it going forward. As such India and Iran have come to an agreement that India will invest in the infrastructure of Iran and upkeeping of several Iranian ports. India shall additionally donate 10 million dollars to the Iranian military every year. In return, Iran will give our military access to their country. This is done because India has several military bases in Central Asian nations such as Tajikistan and this gives us direct access to our military personnel stationed in these nations. We also agree to free trade that is there shall be no tariffs between our nations. Iran also agrees to lease give the Indian navy access to a 120 km square land plot on its coast for Indian navy to build and maintain a new port that will be under Indian jurisdiction for a price of 1 million dollars a year. May the Indo Persian friendship last for a century and beyond.
While many cultures broadly share similar types of crops despite being distantly related, some crops or animals have become nearly synonymous with certain broad cultural groups due to that crop or animal's prevalence within the broader societies which cultivated them. It is because these cultures of the past relied so heavily on just one or two staple foods that we now associte certain foods (corn-tortillas) with certain cultural cuisines (mexican food). So, what are the equivalents of these crops or animals in your world? Are they different than the kinds of plants and animals we have already domesticated here? Are they different? How so? And how has this impacted the cultures of your world's societies?
That's kind of a weird question, so let me try to clarify. Also, let me be absolutely clear that I'm only interested in learning about the culture, and I do not mean to come across as judgmental in the slightest.
As far as I understand, Iran isn't exactly a lush agricultural powerhouse. It's largely semi-arid, with lots of mountains and valleys, large stretches of desert such as the Dasht-e Kavir, and limited temperate areas in the north and west of the country, such as in Khuzestan and along the Caspian Sea coast. Given such geographical and topographical conditions, I would have figured that it would have been tough to devote much time and resources to, um, "pleasurable living", even for those at the top of society.
And yet, by the time of the Achaemenid Empire, the ancient Persians had developed that lifestyle to such an art form that the Greeks had developed a stereotype of the "soft, decadent Easterners". Of course, the Persians controlled Egypt and Mesopotamia, and inherited elements of their civilizations, but their heartland was still the Iran Plateau.
More recently, Persian literary works from the medieval period tend to be absolutely lavish in their sensual descriptions. I've been reading a Kindle sample of The Mirror of My Heart, a collection of Persian poetry by women translated by Dick Davis, and the introduction includes a poem by Rabe'eh Balkhi:
> The garden shows so many flowers, as though
> Mani had painted their resplendent glow
> Dawnβs breezes never bore Tibetan musk,
> How is the world so musky when they blow?
> Are Majnunβs eyes within the clouds, that they
> Shed Layliβs cheeksβ hue on each rose below?
> Like wine within an agate glass, his tears
> Have filled each tulip with their crimson glow
> Raise up the wine bowl, raise it generously
> Since bad luck dogs deniers who say βNoβ
> Narcissi glow with silver and with gold
> Itβs Kasraβs crown their shining petals show
> Like nuns in purple cowls the violets bloom
> Do they turn into Christians as they grow?
I'll let Dr. Davis talk for a bit here about the aforementioned work:
> And so, packed into one short poem, we have: spring, a garden, the breeze at dawn, the most valued medieval perfume (musk), an evocation of a distant land (Tibet), wonder at an ideally beautiful situation, a reference to a tragic Arab love story, blood-red tears, non-judgmental references to two non-Islamic faiths (Manicheism and Christian
... keep reading on reddit β‘Indo-Persia is a country located in Central and South Asia which expands lengthwise all the way from the Ural Regions of Eurasia all the way to the Indian Ocean as it's width expands all the way from the Ottoman Empire all the way to China. The Nation have a majority of domination over the silk Road has influenced the Nation's Government into building a railway that covers all routes of the Silk Road within their nation to create a railway that goes through it's vast nation so it can dominate all trade routes under the thumb of the Silk Road Railway company.
The Country was founded by Reza Shah who with the aid of the Germans overthrew the Qajars due to the fact they were unable to handle the instability of the region of Persia. Reza's soldiers were trained by the Germans as they waged war and conquered the Gulf States, Zanzibar, Afghanistan, Khivam Bukhara and all of India with the aid of the Germans and their allies. Reza Shah after these victories annexed the Gulf States, Zanzibar, Afghanistan, Khiva, Bukhara and all of the Princely States of India as Puppet States, crowned himself the Shahanshah of Persia and Chhatrapati of India as the Empire itself was proclaimed.
The Indo-Persian Empire is a United Semi-Federal Absolute Dual Monarchy in which Reza Shah rules as Shahanshah of Persia and Chhatrapati of India with his deputy being his former superior in the army and President of the Privy Council Prince Abdol-Hossein Farman Farma and the two prime ministers (one prime minister for Persia and one prime minister for India). The Rulers of the Puppet States, Princely States, Aristocrats, Nobles, Soldiers and Bureaucrats are the only people allowed to vote as they can accept or veto any law they approve of or disapprove of in which the majority vote wins.
Reza had created hordes institutions such as schools, universities and hospitals run by workers and officials who are trained by people within their career fields.
Indo-Persia has become a successful Empire due to it's Oil Industry being relied on to power it's ships to protect all travelers in the Indian Ocean from African rogues and Somali Pirates, it's Mining Industry being relied on to produce
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People who follow Jung often look into how there are all these similarities between the myths of different cultures, and how they must be evidence of archetypes, symbols of the collective psyche, or anything relating to there being reoccurring patterns in humanity that imply the transcendent.
There is one obvious caveat here, that if they actually come from the same culture then this loses its weight. Well, what I am about to say doesn't debunk similarities from cultures that actually have little enough relation to each other to support those theories, but it does limit it when looking at the whole continent of the cultures in Europe and the subcontinent of India.
Similarities between Greek myth, and Germanic, from the Celtic to the Indian, can almost be completely explained away with the fact that they all have the same ancestors and people group, the Proto Indo Europeans of prehistory. Linguists have known this for a while, and they categorize all these different cultures under the Indo European language family tree. "Theres this common symbol between the Greeks and the Indians!!!!" Yes thats because you can literally track the development of these historically, and if its old enough you can probably track it down right to the Ukrainian Steppe where it all began.
This knowledge was not avaliable to Jung at the time, or most jungian schools, and is being uncovered relatively recently. We must update for the times, we cannot be making ahistorical claims. We must be actually looking into how these myths are all connected before we start making these statements about how it points to evidence of the collective psyche because "two different cultures" have the same motif, because we will be wrong, and fools. I feel a lot of people are unaware of this, so I am telling you now. This actually opens up a whole new avenue, but that is for yourself to see.
Two very good YouTube channels that combine archeology, foresensics, genetic data, linguistics, written record and the cross reference of all of this that I recommend would be: "Survive the Jive", and "Fortress of Lugh". Survive the Jive has a more Germanic focus, and Fortress of Lugh has a more Celtic one. Both are self described pagans, which is good to keep in mind for bias, although I suspect it has driven them both to be so excellent in their fervor for knowledge.
Thank you for reading. Best wishes on your search for truth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
> A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that they would both drown if the scorpion killed the frog in the middle of the river. The frog considers this argument sensible and agrees to transport the scorpion. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog anyway, dooming them both. The dying frog asks the scorpion why it stung despite knowing the consequence, to which the scorpion replies: "I am sorry, but I couldn't help it. It's in my nature."
This fable, as far as we can tell, comes from Russia, but there is a very similar precursor called The Scorpion and the Turtle which seems to come from Persia. What does this fable mean to you? I've heard there is a Persian saying "The sting of scorpion is not because of hatred it is requirement of his nature."
Lately I've been interested in Persian's impact on languages of the Indian subcontinent. I've been trying to find some measures of this, such as a formal count of the number of Perso-arabic words in a given language. So far I've found this for Hindustani (about 5500, "Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani", Kuczkiewicz-Fras 2012) and Bengali (5186, "Perso-Arabic Elements in Bengali", Hilali 1967). I haven't been able to find similar works for other languages, sometimes because the work isn't available online, and other times because I haven't been able to find any such references. Could anyone drop resources that document Perso-Arabic vocabulary, particularly in the Indo-Aryan languages?
The Indo-Persian Empire is a large Empire born from the ashes of war as the lands of Central and South Asia were victims of Modern Imperialism and thousands of years Dynastic Tribalism. However one by the name of Reza Shah Pahlavi had conquered these lands under his iron fist. Reza Shah Pahlavi was no ordinary Emperor for he was a man who was once a General who's father was rumored to be a descendant of Cyrus the Great, the great king of the Persian Empire. This rumor gave Reza the idea of a mystic belief that he as a descendant of Cyrus the Great should be the ruler of Persia.
Reza's chance to become Emperor had come when the Japanese were planning to use Persia as a launchpad to conquer the British possessions in the Persian Gulf, The Indian Ocean, Turkestan and all of South Asia. Reza agreed as he overthrew the Qajar Shahs who failed Persia due to them being weak and their shah being ill. Reza won the support of the Majiis and the Clergy and became Shahanshah of Persia. Reza Shah then invaded the Persian Gulf Nations, Zanzibar, Khiva, Bukhara, Afghanistan and all of the British Raj with Japanese help.
After the war, Reza had created an Empire ruled by him and his dynasty that is administered by 19 Puppet States and hordes of Princely States whom are all subjugated under two Parliaments, one for Persia and one for India as they answer to the President of the Privy Council, Prince Abdol Hossein Farman Farma. Sadly there was a situation as the leader of the all-India Muslim League, Al Jinnah took control of the Government as the sole Prime Minister of the Empire as created a Majilis that contained of local Afghan tribes and members of the Muslim League who had the purpose of enforcing Sharia law upon the people of the Empire. People within the Empire rebelled against Jinnah and his dictatorship which resulted in a civil war. The Civil war was won by Reza Shah, Farman Farma and the two new Prime Ministers of the Empire Zia'eddin Tabataba'i and Chakravarti Rajagopalachari became Prime Ministers as they reformed the country back to it's original state.
Sadly even though the Jinnah crisis was over, the legacy of the Jinnah dictatorship remains as some opposition still occurs. The Economy and Government despite being successful is at threat of invasion by the Soviets or insurrections by Jinnah's loyalists.
That's kind of a weird question, so let me try to clarify. Also, let me be absolutely clear that I'm only interested in learning about the culture, and I do not mean to come across as judgmental in the slightest.
As far as I understand, Iran isn't exactly a lush agricultural powerhouse. It's largely semi-arid, with lots of mountains and valleys, large stretches of desert such as the Dasht-e Kavir, and limited temperate areas in the north and west of the country, such as in Khuzestan and along the Caspian Sea coast. Given such geographical and topographical conditions, I would have figured that it would have been tough to devote much time and resources to, um, "pleasurable living", even for those at the top of society.
And yet, by the time of the Achaemenid Empire, the ancient Persians had developed that lifestyle to such an art form that the Greeks had developed a stereotype of the "soft, decadent Easterners". Of course, the Persians controlled Egypt and Mesopotamia, and inherited elements of their civilizations, but their heartland was still the Iran Plateau.
More recently, Persian literary works from the medieval period tend to be absolutely lavish in their sensual descriptions. I've been reading a Kindle sample of The Mirror of My Heart, a collection of Persian poetry by women translated by Dick Davis, and the introduction includes a poem by Rabe'eh Balkhi:
> The garden shows so many flowers, as though
> Mani had painted their resplendent glow
> Dawnβs breezes never bore Tibetan musk,
> How is the world so musky when they blow?
> Are Majnunβs eyes within the clouds, that they
> Shed Layliβs cheeksβ hue on each rose below?
> Like wine within an agate glass, his tears
> Have filled each tulip with their crimson glow
> Raise up the wine bowl, raise it generously
> Since bad luck dogs deniers who say βNoβ
> Narcissi glow with silver and with gold
> Itβs Kasraβs crown their shining petals show
> Like nuns in purple cowls the violets bloom
> Do they turn into Christians as they grow?
I'll let Dr. Davis talk for a bit here about the aforementioned work:
> And so, packed into one short poem, we have: spring, a garden, the breeze at dawn, the most valued medieval perfume (musk), an evocation of a distant land (Tibet), wonder at an ideally beautiful situation, a reference to a tragic Arab love story, blood-red tears, non-judgmental references to two non-Islamic faiths (Manicheism and Christian
... keep reading on reddit β‘As far as I understand, Iran isn't exactly a lush agricultural powerhouse. It's largely semi-arid, with lots of mountains and valleys, large stretches of desert such as the Dasht-e Kavir, and limited temperate areas in the north and west of the country, such as in Khuzestan and along the Caspian Sea coast. Given such geographical and topographical conditions, I would have figured that it would have been tough to devote much time and resources to, um, "pleasurable living", even for those at the top of society.
And yet, by the time of the Achaemenid Empire, the ancient Persians had developed that lifestyle to such an art form that the Greeks had developed a stereotype of the "soft, decadent Easterners". Of course, the Persians controlled Egypt and Mesopotamia, and inherited elements of their civilizations, but their heartland was still the Iran Plateau.
More recently, Persian literary works from the medieval period tend to be absolutely lavish in their sensual descriptions. I've been reading a Kindle sample of The Mirror of My Heart, a collection of Persian poetry by women translated by Dick Davis, and the introduction includes a poem by Rabe'eh Balkhi:
> The garden shows so many flowers, as though
> Mani had painted their resplendent glow
> Dawnβs breezes never bore Tibetan musk,
> How is the world so musky when they blow?
> Are Majnunβs eyes within the clouds, that they
> Shed Layliβs cheeksβ hue on each rose below?
> Like wine within an agate glass, his tears
> Have filled each tulip with their crimson glow
> Raise up the wine bowl, raise it generously
> Since bad luck dogs deniers who say βNoβ
> Narcissi glow with silver and with gold
> Itβs Kasraβs crown their shining petals show
> Like nuns in purple cowls the violets bloom
> Do they turn into Christians as they grow?
I'll let Dr. Davis talk for a bit here about the aforementioned work:
> And so, packed into one short poem, we have: spring, a garden, the breeze at dawn, the most valued medieval perfume (musk), an evocation of a distant land (Tibet), wonder at an ideally beautiful situation, a reference to a tragic Arab love story, blood-red tears, non-judgmental references to two non-Islamic faiths (Manicheism and Christianity) and the evocation of a third (Zoroastrianism), a reference to a glorious pre-Islamic Persian king, the admonition to drink wine, and a kind of flippant contempt for those who would frown on this.
And apparently s
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