Persian mythology

collection of Middle Eastern folk stories

thumb|Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram V|Bahram Gur and Azadeh. The imagery on this plate represents the earliest known depiction of a well-known episode from the story of Bahram Gur, which seems to have been popular for centuries, but was only recorded in the Shahnameh, centuries after this plate was created. Iran, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]

cat breed

Sheherazade ( also spelled Scheherazade, Shahrazad, or Šahrzād) is the legendary narrator and central framing character of One Thousand and One Nights (), a collection of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and North African folktales compiled in Arabic between roughly the 8th and 14th centuries. Sheherazade is the wife of King Shahryar and saves herself, and ultimately the women of the kingdom, from execution by recounting a continuous sequence of interlinked stories over the course of 1,001 nights.

legendary carpet used for transportation

traditional legends and stories etc. from the Persian culture

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Persian tragic romance by Nizami Ganjavi

legendary figure

A parī or peri is a supernatural entity originating from Persian tales and distributed into wider Asian folklore. The parīs are often described as winged creatures of immense beauty who are structured in societies similar to that of humans. Unlike jinn, the parīs usually feature in tales involving supernatural elements.

Iranian mythological creature

mythological homeland of the early Iranians

legendary dynasty of Persian/Iranian tradition and folklore

Atar () is the Zoroastrian concept of holy fire, sometimes described in abstract terms as "burning and unburning fire" or "visible and invisible fire" (Mirza, 1987:389). It is considered to be the visible presence of Ahura Mazda and his Asha through the eponymous Yazata. The rituals for purifying a fire are performed 1,128 times a year.

poem

Zabulistan (, Zābolistān, Zāwulistān or simply ), is an ancient and medieval name for a historical region that included mainly southern Afghanistan as well as southeastern Iran.

'''''' (; Avestan: ) is a divine plant in Zoroastrianism and in later Persian culture and mythology. has its origins in Indo-Iranian religion and is the cognate of Vedic .

legendary mountain

mythical Persian dynasty

fictional king from the Iranian/Persian epic

folk tradition

thumb|250px|Persian manuscript painting: Rostam lamenting Sohrab

Rūdāba or Rudâbe ( ) is a Persian mythological female figure in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh. She is the princess of Kabul, daughter of Mehrab Kaboli and Sindukht, and later she becomes married to Zal, as they become lovers. They had two children, including Rostam, the main hero of the Shahnameh.

In the Persian national epic Shahnameh by the poet Ferdowsi, Rakhsh (, meaning "luminous") is the stallion of the protagonist Rostam.

Deity in the Indo-Iranian pantheon

Humban (, dhu-um-ban, also dhu-ban, Huban) was an Elamite god. He is already attested in the earliest sources preserving information about Elamite religion, but seemingly only grew in importance in the neo-Elamite period, in which many kings had theophoric names invoking him. He was connected with the concept of kitin, or divine protection.

cup of divination in Persian mythology

fabled bird

19th century Persian epic

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thumb|right|Kay Bahman's attack on [[Sistan and defeat of Faramarz in the Jami al-tawarikh, written by Hafiz-i Abru. (Held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)]]

sacred tree in Zoroastrian legend

one of the Shahnameh story, seven difficult stages that Rostam went through

The Marzbān-nāma () is an early 13th-century Persian prose work. It consists of "various didactic stories and fables used as illustrations of morality and right conduct", and belongs to the "mirror for princes" literary genre. It was written in 1210–1225 by Sa'ad al-Din Varavini, under the patronage of Abu'l-Qasem Harun, the vizier of the Eldiguzid ruler (atabeg) Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek (1210–1225).

by the Persian epic poet Hamdollah Mostowfi

Sheshe () in Persian mythology is a jinni-like creature that strangles newborn babies on 6th day of their lives.

Love story in Shahnameh epic poem

mythical character

The Darab-nama () (Book of Daaraab) is a Persian prose romance, written by the 12th-century writer Abu Tahir Tarsusi, in which the adventures of the Kayanid Iranian King Darab are recounted.

In Persian mythology, Zarik (or Zarich) is a Daeva in the service of Ahriman.

Persian definition in astronomy

Zaratosht-nama or Cangranghaca-nama () is a religious epic poem in Persian language composed in 13th century CE. The poem is about the life of Zoroaster, the founder of Zoroastianism. The author of the poem is Kay Kavus pur-i Khosrow. The poem is erroneously attributed to Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo who is actually the copier of the first surviving manuscript of the work. The poem contains 600 distichs and is composed in the same meter as Shahnameh of Ferdowsi. The work is based on the oral narratives of Zoroastrians and has a lot of similarities with Middle Persian literature such as the Denkard

Central Asian and Iranian female saint, patroness of the spinners

early period in the history of the Iranian peoples

Legendary Persian sword

In Persian and Zoroastrian legends, the mighty Gaokerena was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties and gave immortality to the resurrected bodies of the dead when eaten. It is also said to have the seeds of all trees on Earth and that the juice from its fruit gave the elixir of immortality. The name Gaokerena means "ox horn" or "cow ear". == Simurgh roosting on the tree ==

mythical Iranian character

thumb|right|Ashkbous in the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp Ashkbous () is a Keshanian hero in Shahnameh who fights with Iranians in the Battle of Kamous-e Kashani. In Bondari's translation of Shahnameh into Arabic, his name is given as Askbos. In the story of Kamous, Ashkbous first fights with Rohham and defeats him, but he himself was defeated and killed by Rostam who was fighting on foot without Rakhsh. The battle of Rostam and Ashkbous was a popular choice in Persian miniature. It has been suggested that Kashanians or Koshanians are related to Kushan Empire.

thumb|right|"Azar Barzin killing a dragon", folio from the Bahman-nameh, presumably interpolated into a Shahnameh manuscript. Created in [[Qazvin, Safavid Iran, dated ]] The Bahman-nameh () is a Persian epic poem of around 9500 lines, which describes the exploits of Kay Bahman, the son of Esfandiyar of the royal Kayanid dynasty. The earliest attestation of this work is in the book Mojmal al-tawarikh, which gives the author as Iranshan ibn Abi'-Khayr (Iranshah).

thumb|A Persian miniature from a 15th-century manuscript of the [[Shahnameh depicting Ardashir killing Hafvād's worm.]]

Persian epic