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In Middle Persian he is called Dahāg (Persian: دهاگ) or Bēvar Asp (Persian: بیور اسپ) the latter meaning "he who has 10,000 horses". [4] [5] In Zoroastrianism, Zahhak (going under the name Aži Dahāka) is considered the son of Ahriman, the foe of Ahura Mazda. [6] In the Shāhnāmeh of Ferdowsi, Zahhāk is the son of a ruler named ...
Kurdish man in Kaveh the blacksmith costume, celebrating Newroz, in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region, 2018. Called Kawe-y Asinger (Sorani Kurdish: کاوەی ئاسنگەر) in Kurdish mythology, some Kurds believe that the ancestors of the Kurds fled to the mountains to escape the oppression of an Assyrian king named Zahhak, who is later killed and overthrown at the hands of Kawe.
Zahhak came from Arabia. [65] He was the son of Merdas, a good king whom he killed, ruling in his place as an evil tyrant. As a mark of evil, he had serpents growing from his shoulders. [66] After usurping Jamshid's throne as well, Zahhak ruled for 1,000 years until he was overthrown in a popular insurrection and killed by the rightful king ...
This series of three books is a modern adaptation of the Shahnameh (Persian: شاهنامه), a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE. Inspired by Shahname which is divided into three successive parts: the "mythical", "epic", and "historical" ages, each 3 volumes of the trilogy of Persians and I covers ...
They traced the Ghurid family back to the mythical Arab tyrant Zahhak, mentioned in the medieval Persian epic Shahnameh ("The Book of Kings"), whose family had reportedly settled in Ghur after the Iranian hero Fereydun had ended Zahhak's thousand-year tyranny. [8] [21] Additionally, nothing is known of the pre-Islamic religious beliefs of the ...
The tale starts with the dragon-fiend king Zahhak who was on the verge of slaying Jamshid. Zahhak predicts that a person from Jamshid's royal line shall avenge his death. In order to circumvent this prediction, Zahhak sends his brother Kush to Čin (parts of China and Central Asia in Persian mythology) to get rid
The Legend of Mardoush (Persian: افسانه ماردوش), is a long animated Persian trilogy based on the mythical stories of Shahnameh. The metaphor mardoush, literally meaning snake-shoulder, refers to Zahhak, as two snakes grew on his shoulders after they were kissed by Ahriman.
The name Drafš-e Kāvīān means "the standard of the kay(s)" (i.e., "kings", kias, kavis) or "of Kāva." [1] The latter meaning is an identification with an Iranian legend in which the Derafš-e Kāvīān was the standard of a mythological Iranian blacksmith-turned-hero named Kaveh (Persian: کاوه), who led a popular uprising against the foreign demon-like ruler Zahhak (Persian: ضحاک).