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    <description>Marking 1,000 years since the death of Ferdowsi (c. 1020 → 2026 CE). A seven-part series tracing what the Shahnameh preserved of Zoroastrian Persia — back to its source.</description>
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      <title>The Verse That Saved a Civilization — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part VII</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["I have suffered for thirty years — I revived the Persians with this Persian." Fourteen words, in the language they revived. Every Persian poet who came after Ferdowsi — Khayyam, Sanai, Attar, Nizami, Rumi, Saadi, Hafez, Jami — stood on his shoulders. The closer of the Ferdowsi Millennium series.]]></description>
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      <title>Jamshid and the First Nowruz — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part VI</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When 300 million people celebrate Nowruz in 2026, they are performing a Zoroastrian rite four thousand years old. The first Nowruz was the day Avestan Yima — the radiant first king — ascended his throne. Persia's New Year is a Zoroastrian sacrament that survived the Arab conquest unbroken.]]></description>
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      <title>Rostam · The Last Zoroastrian Hero — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part V</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[He was born by Simurgh's medicine. He fought seven labors. He killed the White Div. He killed his own son. He killed the Zoroastrian prince Esfandiyar. He died at six hundred years old in a pit lined with spears. When Rostam dies, the entire pre-Islamic Zoroastrian heroic age dies with him.]]></description>
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      <title>The Simurgh · Guardian Bird of Persia — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part IV</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A bird so old she has watched the world be destroyed three times. Her Persian name comes from the Avestan Saēna, named in the Yashts a thousand years before Ferdowsi was born. She nests on the Tree of All Seeds in the cosmic sea Vourukasha. She raised Zal on Mount Alborz.]]></description>
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      <title>The Faravahar on the Tomb — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part III</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1934, Reza Shah completed a mausoleum for Ferdowsi modeled on the tomb of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae — and carved the Faravahar, the sacred winged symbol of Zoroastrianism, into the marble of a Muslim poet's grave.]]></description>
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      <title>Daqiqi · The Zoroastrian Poet Who Died for the Book — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part II</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Before Ferdowsi, there was Daqiqi — a poet who wrote that the four good things in life were ruby lips, the lute, old red wine, and the Zoroastrian religion. He took up the great Persian epic. He was murdered while writing the conversion of King Goshtasp.]]></description>
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      <title>The Man Who Saved Persia — A Thousand Years of Fire, Part I</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[One thousand years ago, an old man died in a Persian garden. He had spent thirty years writing fifty thousand couplets to keep Zoroastrian Persia alive. It worked. Modern Persia exists because of him.]]></description>
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