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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 ...
This is a list of mythologies native to Asia: Buddhist mythology; Chinese mythology; Christian mythology ... Persian mythology; Scythian mythology. Assianism ...
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Greater Iran or Greater Persia (Persian: ایران بزرگ Irān-e Bozorg), also called the Iranosphere or the Persosphere, is an expression that denotes a wide socio-cultural region comprising parts of West Asia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and East Asia (specifically the Tarim Basin)—all of which have been affected, to some ...
Mythology portal; Asia portal Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. ... Persian mythology in popular culture (2 C, 8 P) S ...
Manticore (mardxâr: from Middle Persian martyaxwar), a man-eater with the head of a human and the body of a lion, similar to the Egyptian sphinx. Amen Bird (morğ-e āmin): a mythical bird in Persian literature that flies continuously and fulfills people's wishes. [33] [34]
Turan (Avestan: Tūiriiānəm; Middle Persian: Tūrān; Persian: توران, romanized: Turân, pronounced [tʰuːˈɾɒːn], lit. ' The Land of Tur ') is a historical region in Central Asia. The term is of Iranian origin [1] [2] and may refer to a particular prehistoric human settlement, a historic geographical region, or a culture.
The Caucasus Mountains, traditional location of Paristan. In Persian cosmology, Paristan (Persian: پریستان Parīstān, lit. ' land of the parīs '; also Koh-i-Qaf or Qafkuh) is the home of parīs, which are supernatural beings originating from Persian tales and wider Asian folklore that are described as winged creatures of immense beauty.