In the famine years of late fifth-century Persia, a priest named Mazdak preached that hoarded grain, hoarded land, and hoarded wives were not the natural order of things but a wrong human beings had chosen and could unchoose. King Kavad I backed him, granaries opened, and for a moment a preacher's uncomfortable truth and a king's political ambitions moved in perfect alignment - until the alignment broke, and Mazdak's story ended in a purge so brutal it still unsettles retelling centuries later. Harmonia, who watched it unfold and still cannot fully separate the spiritual conviction from the political convenience tangled inside it, asks the listener to consider a harder kind of faith: one that judges truth not by the purity of the hands that carried it, but by what actually got done.
Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/granary-doors-mazdak-and-truth-outlives-its-carriers
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