The Story of Sanjan recounts how emissaries of this religion poured sugar into a glass of milk to convince Jadi Rana to welcome them. Muhammad Jinnah’s wife, Ruttie Petit, was from a wealthy family of this religion, whose members formed surnames like “Sodawaterwala” and “Rumwala” from the drinks they sold. A crisis caused by the drug diclofenac has threatened this religion’s use of hill-top dakhmas in Mumbai. This religion’s practitioners in India are called (*) Parsis (10[1])and tend to sacred fires called atars. In contrast to Vedic beliefs about asuras and devas, this religion abhors devas and venerates ahuras. Corpses are left to vultures on Towers of Silence by practitioners of, for 10 points, what Persian religion? ■END■