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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 ...
Others interpret the name as meaning 'set at the beginning' in the sense of 'first man'. Some have noted the similarity between the name Paradhāta and Paralatos , the name of the progenitor of the Paralatae or "Royal Scythians " who was a grandson of Targitaus, the first man according to Scythian mythology .
The early Greek texts typically have the pejorative meaning, which in turn influenced the meaning of magos to denote a conjurer and a charlatan. [15] Already in the mid-5th century BC, Herodotus identifies the magi as interpreters of omens and dreams ( Histories 7.19, 7.37, 1.107, 1.108, 1.120, 1.128 [ 16 ] ).
Katāyoun [1] (Persian: کَتایون) is a female figure in Shāhnāmeh and Iranian mythology.She is married to Goshtāsb and the mother of Esfandiār.In the Shāhnāme, she is the daughter of the Kaiser of Rûm, while in both the Avestā and in Pahlavi texts, she is called Hutaosā and identified as an Iranian girl and a descendant of Nowzar.
From this Persian origin, belief in div entered Muslim belief. Abu Ali Bal'ami's work on the history of the world, is the oldest known writing including explicitly Islamic cosmology and the div. He attributes his account on the creation of the world to Wahb ibn Munabbih. [4] (p40)
Shahrokh, Shahrukh, or Shah Rukh (Persian: شاهرخ) is the name of a mythological bird in Iranian literature. It is built of two parts: Shah meaning a king, and Rukh (or Rogh, or Rokh), another enormous mythological bird.
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 .
The text can be divided into a preface, a frame story about a king named Kush (different from the main character), a second frame story about Alexander the Great, and the main narrative which tells the story of Kush the Tusked and his battles with Abtin and Fereydun and their adventures in China, Korea, the Maghreb, and the Iberian Peninsula.