07-20-2012, 09:24 PM
Hmm that is rather...dodgy. To say the least. I think in general Touraj is, like many Iranologists of Iranian descent, as much of an Iranian as an historian and it shows sometimes with the eternal Iran crap. Don't get me wrong I don't think he's bad...although I recently read an article of his on Indo-Iranian and Greek cosmology and it was utter toilet paper linguistics wise, frankly...but..
Now they were Sassanian families who tried to claim descent from Parthian nobility incidentally but this was so transparent as to be a bit ludicrous. Cambs anc history.
Speaking of Kayanids I'm currently going back over the Zoroastrian material to brush up on my Avestan. Honestly tackling with the script (its in Gujurati script as most Zoros' write in) is annoying me a little bit.
Reading this stuff is really interesting especially...but I think more than anything I'm stuck by the massive disconnect when it comes to later stuff like the Shanameh in so many conceivable ways.
Now they were Sassanian families who tried to claim descent from Parthian nobility incidentally but this was so transparent as to be a bit ludicrous. Cambs anc history.
Speaking of Kayanids I'm currently going back over the Zoroastrian material to brush up on my Avestan. Honestly tackling with the script (its in Gujurati script as most Zoros' write in) is annoying me a little bit.
Reading this stuff is really interesting especially...but I think more than anything I'm stuck by the massive disconnect when it comes to later stuff like the Shanameh in so many conceivable ways.
Jass
