Weshparkar, or Veshparkar, was the Sogdian god of the Atmosphere and the Wind. He corresponds to the Avestan god Vayu. In Central Asia, Weshparkar has also been associated to the Indian god Shiva.
Weshparkar, or Veshparkar, was the Sogdian god of the Atmosphere and the Wind. He corresponds to the Avestan god Vayu. In Central Asia, Weshparkar has also been associated to the Indian god Shiva.
== Overview == By the 6th–8th centuries, numerous scenes of worship of gods were included in temples, palaces and houses of Penjikent, Samarkand, Varakhsha near Bukhara, and Shakhristan (the residence of the ruler of Ustrushana, an area inhabited by Sogdians northeast of Samarkand Sogd). It is not always easy to distinguish between the images of such Sogdian gods, strongly Indianized under the influence of Shiva's iconography, such as, for example, the God of the wind Veshparkar, similar to Mahadeva, from the images of Shiva himself, whose cult penetrated into Bactria and Sogd. If the dancing god in the "pose of an archer", with all his Indian features, is included in a typical Sogdian cult scene with worshipers in local clothes with local ritual objects - a portable fire altar and a bunch of branches (leopard), then the already mentioned group with Shiva and Parvati, although it has Sogdian elements, on the whole it hardly allows for an Iranian (in the broad sense of the word) interpretation.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).