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Gordafarid, a young Iranian princess who fought Sohrab; Gordiye, a princess and warrior of House of Mehran, sister of Bahram Chobin, wife of Vistahm and eventually wife of Khosrow II Parviz; Gol Shahr, wife of Piran Viseh; Mah Afarid, a woman who slept with Iraj, mother of Manuchihr; Manizheh, a Turanian princess, the lover of Bijan
Iranian mythology, or Persian mythology in western term (Persian: اسطورهشناسی ایرانی), is the body of the myths originally told by ancient Persians and other Iranian peoples and a genre of ancient Persian folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and ...
Here is a list of characters represented in the Persian epic poem Shāhnāmeh by Ferdowsi, including both heroes and villains : This literature-related list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .
The histories and legends in Greek mythology may be inspired by warrior women among the Sarmatians. Artemis (Latin Diana) is the Greek goddess of the hunt, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister to Apollo. She is usually depicted bearing a bow and arrows. Atalanta is one of the few mortal heroines in Greek mythology. She possessed great ...
Anahita / ɑː n ə ˈ h iː t ə / is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aradvi Sura Anahita (Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā), the Avestan name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of "the Waters" and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom.
Rudaba, Persian miniature. Rudāba or Rudābeh (Persian: رودابه [ruːdɒːˈbe]) is a Persian mythological female figure in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh. She is the princess of Kabul, daughter of Mehrab Kaboli and Sindukht, and later she becomes married to Zal, as they become lovers.
Katāyoun [1] (Persian: کَتایون) is a female figure in Shāhnāmeh and Iranian mythology.She is married to Goshtāsb and the mother of Esfandiār.In the Shāhnāme, she is the daughter of the Kaiser of Rûm, while in both the Avestā and in Pahlavi texts, she is called Hutaosā and identified as an Iranian girl and a descendant of Nowzar.
In one version, the first human Shahmaran encounters is a young man named Jamasp (Persian: Jāmāsp جاماسپ), who is also known by Yada Jamsab (other spellings are Jambs, Camasb, and Jamisav). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Jamasp gets stuck in a cave after he tries to steal honey with a few friends, his friends leave him alone in the cave. [ 10 ]