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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 ...
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)
In one version, the first human Shahmaran encounters is a young man named Jamasp (Persian: Jāmāsp جاماسپ), who is also known by Yada Jamsab (other spellings are Jambs, Camasb, and Jamisav). [10] [11] [12] Jamasp gets stuck in a cave after he tries to steal honey with a few friends, his friends leave him alone in the cave. [10]
Turan, which is the Persian name for the areas of Central Asia beyond the Oxus up to the 7th century (where the story of the Shahnameh ends), was generally an Iranian-speaking land. [27] According to Richard Frye, "The extent of influence of the Iranian epic is shown by the Turks who accepted it as their own ancient history as well as that of Iran
His name means "the one with black stallions" [1] after his horse Shabrang Behzād (شبرنگ بهزاد, lit. ' night-coloured purebred ' ), who accompanies him during a trial of righteousness. Owing to his birth to a non-aristocratic mother, Siyâvash is sent away by his father to Zabulistan , where he is raised by the holy warrior Rostam to ...
Daeva, the Iranian language term, shares the same origin of "Deva" of Hinduism, which is a cognate with Latin deus ("god") and Greek Zeus. While the word for the Vedic spirits and the word for the Zoroastrian entities are etymologically related, their function and thematic development is altogether different.
Arash the Archer (Persian: آرش کمانگیر Āraš-e Kamāngīr) is a heroic archer-figure of Iranian mythology.According to Iranian folklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched by Arash, after he put his own life in the arrow's launch.
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 ...