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To: kabumpo; Yardstick
Good point -- though I think yardstick meant to say that the Persianness is what distinguishes the Iranis from the Arab world.

Even the "arabs" are not really mostly Arab. Syrians, Iraqis are mainly descendents of Aram or Assyria. Egyptians are Copts in origin, north Africans are Berber and Yemenis are southern Arab (the same states as the kingdom of Sheba). the true Arabis are the nejd bedouins.

16 posted on 04/08/2011 2:09:31 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
I was wrong about my point above. I take this corrective text below from the wikipedia article
In Zoroastrian tradition, the malevolent is represented by Angra Mainyu (also referred to as "Ahriman"), the "Destructive Principle", while the benevolent is represented through Ahura Mazda's Spenta Mainyu, the instrument or "Bounteous Principle" of the act of creation. It is through Spenta Mainyu that transcendental Ahura Mazda is immanent in humankind, and through which the Creator interacts with the world. According to Zoroastrian cosmology, in articulating the Ahuna Vairya formula, Ahura Mazda made His ultimate triumph evident to Angra Mainyu. As expressions and aspects of Creation, Ahura Mazda emanated the Amesha Spentas ("Bounteous Immortals"), that are each the hypostasis and representative of one aspect of that Creation. These Amesha Spenta are in turn assisted by a league of lesser principles, the Yazatas, each "Worthy of Worship" and each again a hypostasis of a moral or physical aspect of creation

17 posted on 04/08/2011 3:43:19 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos; kabumpo
Good point -- though I think yardstick meant to say that the Persianness is what distinguishes the Iranis from the Arab world.

Yep, that's what I meant.

29 posted on 04/08/2011 12:22:27 PM PDT by Yardstick
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