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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 ...
Storytelling has an important presence in Iranian culture. [1] In classical Iran, minstrels performed for their audiences at royal courts [1] and in public theaters. [2] A minstrel was referred to by the Parthians as gōsān in Parthian, and by the Sasanians as huniyāgar in Middle Persian. [2]
Despite their isolation from Georgia, many Georgians have preserved their language and some traditions, but embraced Islam. The ethnographer Lado Aghniashvili was first from Georgia to visit this community in 1890. In the aftermath of World War I, the Georgian minority in Iran was caught in the pressures of the rising Cold War.
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Like other ancient religions, Iranian religions did not have an organized collection of myths. Iranian myths are rather fragments from various stories that exhibit variations on common themes. There is a variant of the Great Flood myth in Iranian religion. Here Yama appears as the herdsman and leader of mankind.
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Persian Gulf Wars Iran–Iraq War (1980–88), also known as the Persian Gulf War or the First Gulf War; Gulf War (1991), also known as the Persian Gulf War, the First Gulf War, Operation Granby, or Operation Desert Storm; Iraq War (2003–present), also known as the Second or Third Gulf War; an ongoing conflict