Verethragna

Also known as Bahram, Verethraghna

Verethragna or Bahram () is a Zoroastrian yazata.

Key facts

Deity.type: Zoroastrian
Deity.deity_of: God of War and Victory Barrier-Breaker
Deity.image: 200px
Deity.caption: Relief of the God Varahram on a column in Taq-e Bostan, Sassanian period
Deity.script_name: Avestan
Deity.script: Verethragna 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀‎
Deity.gender: male
Deity.planet: Mars
Deity.symbol: White Horse, Strong wind, Wild Boar, Camel, Bull, Young Man, Ram, Wild Goat, Magnificent Armed Man, Bird of Prey
Deity.affiliation: The Thirty-Three Deities, Guardians of the Days of the Month
Deity.day: 20th of each month in the Iranian calendar, Tuesday of each week
Deity.associated_deities: Mithra, Tishtrya, Vayu-Vata
Deity.sacred_flower: Hyacinth
Deity.Greek_equivalent: Ares
Deity.roman_equivalent: Mars

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: god
Gender: male
Country: Persian Empire

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Encyclopedic overview

16 sections

Contents

In the Avesta
In the ''Bahram Yasht''
In other texts
In culture and tradition
In the Zoroastrian hierarchy
As the name of a planet
In the name of a class of fire
In art and iconography
As the name of kings
In Twelver Shi'ism
In Avestan scholarship
See also
Footnotes
References
Bibliography
Further reading

Verethragna or Bahram () is a Zoroastrian yazata.

The neuter noun verethragna is related to Avestan verethra, 'obstacle' and verethragnan, 'victorious'. Representing this concept is the divinity Verethragna, who is the hypostasis of "victory", and "as a giver of victory Verethragna plainly enjoyed the greatest popularity of old." In Zoroastrian Middle Persian, Verethragna became , from which Vahram, Vehram, Bahram, Behram and other variants derive.

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