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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 ...
The festival of Tirgan is linked to this epic, besides having roots in the ancient myth of archangel Tishtrya. Garshasp (Garšāsp), a dragon-slaying hero in Iranian legends, now honored as jahān-pahlavān ("chief hero"). [21] Gordafarid (Gordāfarid), praised for her daringly martial role in the tragedy of Rostam o Sohrāb ("Rostam and Sohrab").
Bijan and Manijeh (also Bizhan and Manizheh, Persian بيژن و منيژه - Bīžan ow Manīža) is a love story in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. Bijan was the son of Giv , a famous Iranian knight during the reign of Kay Khosrow , the Shah of Iran, and Banu Goshasp , the heroine daughter of Rostam .
All of the forms of the name shown above derive, by regular sound laws, from Proto-Iranian *Θraitauna-(Avestan Θraētaona-) and Proto-Indo-Iranian *Traitaunas.. Traitaunas is a derivative (with augmentative suffix -una/-auna) of Tritas, the name of a deity or hero reflected in the Vedic Trita and the Avestan Θrita.
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He then captures Kay Kavus, his commanders, and paladins; blinds them, and imprisons them in a dungeon. The greatest Persian mythical hero Rostam undertakes his "Seven Labors" to free his sovereign. At the end, Rostam slays Div-e Sepid and uses his heart and blood to cure the blindness of the king and the captured Persian heroes.
Kay Kāvus on his flying throne. Illustration from a Persian manuscript. Kay Kāvus (Persian: کیکاووس; Avestan: 𐬐𐬀𐬎𐬎𐬌 𐬎𐬯𐬀𐬥 Kauui Usan); sometimes Kai-Káús or Kai-Kaus, [1] [2] is a mythological shah of Greater Iran and a character in the Shāhnāmeh. He is the son of Kay Qobād and the father of prince ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Iranian mythology or Iranic mythology may refer to any of the following mythologies of ...