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e. 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 ...
Ancient Iranian religion or Iranian paganism was a set of ancient beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples before the rise of Zoroastrianism. The religion closest to it was the historical Vedic religion that was practiced in India. The major deities worshipped were Ahura Mazda and Mithra from Iran to Rome, but Atar was also worshipped, as ...
This category lists articles related to gods in Ancient Iranian religion. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. M. Mitra (1 C, 8 P)
Zoroastrianism. ) is an ancient Iranian deity of covenants, light, oaths, justice, the Sun, [1] contracts, and friendship. [2] In addition to being the divinity of contracts, Mithra is also a judicial figure, an all-seeing protector of Truth (Asha), and the guardian of cattle, the harvest, and the Waters. The Romans attributed their Mithraic ...
Ancient Iranian religion: The ancient religion of the Iranian peoples . Scythian religion: The religion of the Scythians and precursor to modern Uatsdin.Some researchers further speculate that Daevas may partly be based on Scythian gods, hence further influences across Iranian religions as a whole.
Persian mythology in popular culture (1 C, 6 P) S. Shahnameh (7 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Persian mythology" The following 75 pages are in this category, out ...
Zoroastrianism. The Avestan period (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE) [note 1] is the period in the history of the Iranians when the Avesta was produced. [1] It saw important contributions to both the religious sphere, as well as to Iranian mythology and its epic tradition. [2]
A daeva (Avestan: 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 daēuua) is a Zoroastrian supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics. In the Gathas, the oldest texts of the Zoroastrian canon, the daeva s are "gods that are (to be) rejected". This meaning is – subject to interpretation – perhaps also evident in the Old Persian " daiva inscription" of ...