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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 mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth , is central to the human experience.
Rostam or Rustam (Persian: رستم) is a legendary hero in Persian mythology, the son of Zāl and Rudaba, whose life and work was immortalized by the 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi in the Shahnameh, or Epic of Kings, which contains pre-Islamic Iranian folklore and history. However, the roots of the narrative date much earlier.
Depiction of the hero Siyâvash: Persian miniature from the illuminated Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp. Siyâvash (Persian: سیاوش), [a] also spelled Siyâvoš or Siavash (سياووش), is a major figure in the Shahnameh. He is introduced by Ferdowsi as the son of Kay Kāvus, who reigns as Shah in the earliest days of Greater Iran for over a ...
Rostam va Sohrab (1957), by Shahrok Rafi, Iranian film, Persian language. Rustom Sohrab (1963), by Vishram Bedekar, Indian Hindi language film starring Prithviraj, Premnath, Suraiyya and Mumtaz. Rustam and Zohrab (1971), by Boris Kimyagarov, Soviet Tajik film, Russian language. Rostam and Sohrab (1988), by Loris Tjeknavorian, Persian language.
[4] (p 41) The souls of wicked people could also turn into a demon (div) after death, as evident from Al-Razi [24] an idea recalling the concept of original daeva. [25] His idea comes from the assumption that after death, the desire of the soul remains and that a soul thus turns back to the world in an ugly and demonic shape.
Persian manuscript painting: Rustam lamented for Suhrab. Sohrāb or Suhrāb (Persian: سهراب) is a legendary warrior from the Shahnameh, or the Tales of Kings by Ferdowsi in the tragedy of Rostam and Sohrab. [1] He was the son of Rostam, who was an Iranian warrior, and Tahmineh, the daughter of the king of Kingdom of Samangan, a neighboring ...
Zal means albino in Persian language. [11] According to the Georgian Chronicles, the one who blinded K'ekapos (Kay Kavus) was the chief of the Laks. [12] In the Kush Nama written by the poet Iranshah, the White Div is given the name of Eridu (اریدو or ارندو) and is said to have been a descendant of Ham, son of Noah. He is described as ...