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Atar is already evident in the Gathas, the oldest texts of the compendium of the Avesta and believed to have been composed by Zoroaster himself. At this juncture, as in the Yasna Haptanghaiti (the seven-chapter Yasna that structurally interrupts the Gathas and is linguistically as old as the Gathas themselves), atar is still—with only one exception—an abstract concept simply an instrument ...
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 ...
Persian mythology, Sufism The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds ( Arabic : منطق الطیر , Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr , also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr ; 1177) [ 1 ] is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar , commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.
Fire is in the Avesta as Atash or Atar, in Pahlavi literature atour or atakhsh; or in Persian literature, fire is known as azar or athash. The guardian angel of fire is known as Atouryast in Pahlavi literature, and in Persian literature Azarizad (Azar + Izad, which means Fire + Goddess).
Herodotus apparently makes this identification when stating that Zeus in Persian mythology "is the whole circle of heavens". Zeus is also equated with Oromazes (Ahura Mazda) in other Greek sources. These Greeks made this comparison because of Ahura Mazda's role as father and chief god of the pantheon.
Toggle Native American mythology subsection. 5.1 Aztec mythology. ... Atar, yazata of fire in Persian mythology and Zoroastrianism; Taiwanese mythology
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In Vendidad 18.22, Soroush is called for help against the demon-serpent Azi Dahaka who threatens to extinguish the hearth fire (cf. Atar). Soroush is the chief adversary of Aeshma , the daeva of wrath, for Aeshma distracts from proper worship, distorting "the intention and meaning of sacrifice through brutality against cattle and violence in ...