In a 2010 article published by “Sino-Platonic Papers” about the artistic influences of Sasanian Persian Empire (224-651), Heleanor Feltham claimed that the Iranian dynasty dominated the arts across the Silk Road even well after its fall by mid-7^th century… silk was prized across Eurasia… archaeological digs have found silk with the remains of Iranian Scythians as early as 5^th – 3^rd c. BCE… 

Feltham wrote that much of the prized silk was transmitted by peoples of Iranian stock such as the Sakas and the Scythians… even the Parthian dynasty of Iran (248 BCE – 224 CE) used silk for their banners as reported by the Romans… silk arrived in Rome via the Parthian Iranians… 

According to Feltham, Iranian designs, symbols, and motifs on silk were “greatly valued” and “widely copied” across Eurasia from Germany to Japan… even Western heraldry shows Iranian artistic influences… and these Iranian influences are still found in modern designs…

[pic animalsversesanimals: The Chinese word for lion is “shi”… based on Iranian word “shir”… listen to the word here http://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/translation-shi_lion.htm ... for educational purposes only]

Cho-yun Hsu noted in his 2006 book on China that the Chinese called the Sasanian Persian Empire, the “Dashi” (from which Tajik is derived)… additionally, the Iranian empire was alarmed “by the rise of Arab states such as the Umayyad caliphate”…this is interesting given Umayyad government is dated to 661-750… the Mainstream narrative on Sasanians dates their fall at 651… if the Zoroastrian Iranian Sasanians “fell” 10 years before the creation of the Islamic Arab Umayyad caliphate then what was the Iranian government worried about? 

Hsu also wrote that the border generals under China’s Tang dynasty “were almost all descendants of non-Chinese people”… for example, the multi-lingual An Lushan, leader of the An Lushan Rebellion (755-763), was of Sogdian (Iranian stock) or Sogdian(Iranian)-Turkish origin…he revolted against the Tang dynasty and called himself Emperor of Yan…

** Please note that there are many Iranian tribes—the Medes and the Persians are the most famous—so the Sogdians are one of dozens of Iranian tribes in Europe and Asia…

Hsu remarked that “Islam was originally an Arab religion of the desert, but it was able to absorb doctrines from Persian Zoroastrianism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and Judaism and combine them into one simple religious system of submission”… based on this remark one may consider that Islam’s globalist strategy did not formulate until Arab Muslims invaded and colonized Byzantine Empire and Sasanian Persian Empire… is this why the Western Globalists (modern Marxists)—to which the American Deep State and the international Feminist movement belong—align themselves with Islamists?

Here is an interesting podcast on An Lushan  

http://granitestudio.org/2016/05/28/barbarians-gate-lushan/

[pic granitestudio: An image of An Lushan… for educational purposes only]

Henry Shephard noted in a 2008 article on the cult of Dionysus that the word “Magician” is proto-Indo-Iranian…additionally, Greeks referred to Zoroastrians as an ethnic people and the word “Magician” came to mean “any priest, astrologer and magician of non-Greek origin”… 

Shephard claimed that magician stemming from Indo-European magh meaning tall / big (Persian mogh or magi meaing priest) meant “a person having power to perform an action, who is able to do something”…

Given Iranian Zoroastrianism taught that humans are active participants in the cosmic battle of Good vs. Evil by exercising their free will, it is no surprise that the word magician / magi meant a doer of deeds...

In his 1907 book “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft,” Ukrainian-American doctor Victor Robinson wrote:

“In medieval times there lived in Persia a poet by the name of Omar Khayyam. I think the best thing he ever said was this, tho I admit it is hard to choose…

Ah Love! Could you and I with him conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

Would not we shatter it to bits—and then

Remould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?”

[pic pinterest @Ägyptischer Wein: for educational purposes only]

David Utz of University of Pennsylvania claimed in his 1991 article on Iran published by Sino-Platonic Papers that:

* When discussing the language, writing, and traditions of Iran, the geographic location includes modern Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, and most of Central Asia.

* Since antiquity Iranians have had a distinctive religious and ethical ideology…

* The early 11^th c. Iranian national epic by Ferdowsi, THE SHAHNAMEH (The Book of Kings), covered two specific Iranian views of history:

    (1) the “wheel” (charkh in Persian or chakrah) ultimately determines the course of events… there is a correlation between astronomical and human/historical events … with a related Iranian concept of “world-revealing cup” (the Holy Grail) through which what is otherwise not known by normal human capabilities may be revealed; and

    (2) “farr” or the divine glory which is an “indigenous” idea to Iranians… this is a special attribute to commoners as well as determining the legitimacy of leaders of human society… this divine glory is not inherent to a person nor can a person go out and get it… instead farr is accrued to a person… it is a quality that may be lost as well…

* Individuals who, at the right time (wheel), possess farr (divine glory) may use their esoteric knowledge and the world-revealing cup (Holy Grail) for revelations …

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