Xwedodah information

Xwedodah (Persian: خویدوده; khwēdōdah; Avestan: xᵛae¯tuuadaθa) is a spiritually-influenced style of consanguine marriage assumed to have been historically practiced in Zoroastrianism before the Muslim conquest of Persia.^{[1][need quotation to verify]} Such marriages are recorded as having been inspired by Zoroastrian cosmogony and considered pious. It was a high act of worship in Zoroastrianism, and there were punishments for not performing it.^{[2][page needed][3][page needed]} This form of direct familial incest marriage allowed Zoroastrians to marry their sisters, daughters, granddaughters, and their own mothers to take as wives.^{[4][need quotation to verify]} Xwedodah was widely practiced by royalty and nobility, and possibly clergy, but it is not known if it was commonly practiced by families in other classes.^[5] In modern Zoroastrianism it is near non-existent, having been noted to have disappeared as an extant practice by the 11th century AD.^{[5][need quotation to verify]}