Something else that has been playing upon my mind as applies that fine Sogdian funerary sculpture’s purported Zoroastrian provenancy … is the name of the Sogdian whose tomb it was. In his own language, it is Wirkak – that is to say, ‘Wolf’, from the same root a Sanskrit ‘Vrka’, etc. Now, why that is interesting […]
On Wolves Against Zoroastrian Identification
Glyn Hnutu-healh: History, Alchemy, and Me 