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Posted on September 18, 2005 at 00:27:30.

Hot archeological news from Iran

By RN

Recently, I was talking with a friend about The Exorcist. The opening scene shows an archeological dig site near Nienevah which originally means The City of Blood; Iraqi workers exhuming (defiling) a mound and what they find is two contagious artifacts: a figurine of Pazuzu (Evil against Evil) and a medallion of Mary and Jesus which is amazingly at a wrong place (in a pre-Christian Assyrian City). This exhumation cipher becomes the central riddle of the movie.

Yesterday, Iranian News broadcasted some interesting reports from Pasargad, the tomb of Cyrus, the great (who spread Zoroastrian monotheism in Persia), nearly 200km away from Shiraz. The archeologists have accidentally dug up a huge column holding a strange picture of an unknown deity: a (wo)man with four wings (four wings entities are really rare in mythologies), an Egyptian helmet, two markhor’s (an Asian wild goat) horns and two snakes germinated on his head (a composition of Baphomet, Zahak, Ashemogha and an Egyptian entity).

I’m trying to go there and take some photos as soon as possible.

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