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	Persian dragons
		The Persian dragon is one of the varieties of dragon least mentioned (or portrayed) in English-language literature.
		Persian dragons always have a single horn on the center of their forehead, with two main prongs.
		Persian dragons seem to be strictly terrestrial, without an affinity for flying or swimming, which are both very important activities for Chinese and Japanese dragons.
	orion.animaltracks.net /persian.html (1452 words)

	Persian mythology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of the information about Persian (old-Iranian) gods can be found in the religious texts from Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) such as the Avesta, and in later sources such as the Bundahishn and the Denkard.
		The most famous legendary character in the Persian epics and mythology is Rostam.
		Pari (Avesta: Pairika), considered a beautiful though evil woman in early mythology, gradually became less evil and more beautiful until the Islamic period she became a symbol of beauty similar to the houris of Paradise.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persian_mythology (534 words)

	Morbid Outlook - Looking Upon Death With Different Eyes
		In Greek mythology, he is known for kidnapping Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, the grain and harvest goddess.
		In Norse mythology, Hel is the goddess of the netherworld and ruler of the dead.
		In Persian mythology, there are demons or div, which are described as the personification of Ahriman, the devil.
	www.morbidoutlook.com /nonfiction/articles/1999_00_death.html (1030 words)

	Encyclopedia: Persian mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In ancient Persian mythology they are demons who cause plagues and diseases and who fight every form of religion.
		Persian spirits of great beauty who guide mortals on their way to the Land of the Blessed.
		In Persian mythology, one of the four leaders of the stars which fight for Ahura Mazda; the guardian star of the west who conquers evil.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Persian-mythology (549 words)

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		Herodotus relates that the Persians distinguished " all the Scythians all the northern nomads—as Sacae; and this statement is confirmed by the inscriptions of Darius.
		Mythology and Religion of Indian and Iranian, no less clearly marked is the fundamental difference of intellectual and moral standpoint, Difference which has led the two nations into opposite paths between the of See also:
		This tenacity of the Saga stands in the sharpest contrast with the fact that the historical memory of the Persian is extremely defective.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAI_PAS/PART.html (5868 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of demons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Greek mythology consists of an extensive collection of narratives detailing the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines, which were first envisioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition.
		In Etruscan mythology, Charun was a demon who tortured dead souls in the Underworld, as well as the guardian of the entrance to the underworld.
		Demogorgon, although often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually an invention of Christian scholars, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, associated with the underworld and imagined as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-demons (6143 words)

	Daeva \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		A div (earlier Persian dēv, Middle Persian dēw, Avestan daēva) is an evil spirit in Persian mythology that loves to cause harm and destruction.
		Daeva (Avestan) Dev (Pahlavi) Div (Persian) In the Avesta, beings of malicious intent popularly regarded as fiends or demons under the sway of Angra Mainyu.
		In Persian, the divs are wicked, powerful beings who oppose the rule of just kings of Iran.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Daeva (236 words)

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		The Medes and Persians appear to have been in general content to establish in each town a fortified citadel or stronghold, round which the houses were clustered, without superadding the further defence of a town wall.
		The Persian monarch chooses the southern rather than the northern side of the mountains for the site of his capital, preferring the keen winter cold and dry summer heat of the high and almost waterless plateau to the damp and stifling air of the low Caspian region.
		The Persian mountains are a continuation of the Zagros chain, and Northern Persia is a portion--the southern portion--of the same great plateau, whose western and north-western skirts formed the great mass of the Median territory.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16163/16163.txt (19184 words)

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	IRANIAN MYTHOLOGY: DÎV - (CAIS) ©
		The description of the demons in the Persian epic literature is echoed in later literature and other genres.
		The demon goes on to serve Farâmarz so faithfully that he is even dispatched to ask for the hand of a princess on behalf of the hero (pp.
		This willingness of a vanquished demon to serve the victor is explicitly stated in the Persian folktales, where often demons offer to wrestle a hero saying: "If you win, I will be your slave" (e.g., Enjavî, 1979, I, p.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Mythology/div.htm (2082 words)

	Rostam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rostam (رستم Rostæm in Persian) is a mythical warrior of ancient Persia, son of Zal and Rudaba.
		By far, the most famous and popular story of Rostam in the Shahnama is the one in which he kills his own son Sohrab, while the two are unaware of the identity of their opponent until after Rostam wounds his son and during their final conversation the two realize they were father and son.
		Another of Rostæm's most famous exploits was his struggle against the dēw (modern Persian div "demon") named Akwān, who had initially transmogriphied as a beautiful Zebra, ravaging the horse-herds of Persia.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rustam (429 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Demonology
		For the original meaning of the word is "shining one", and it comes from a primitive Aryan root div, which is likewise the source of the Greek Zeus and the Latin deus.
		Although there are marked differences between the demons of the Avesta and the devil in Scripture and Christian theology (for Christian doctrine is free from the dualism of the Mazdean system), the essential struggle between good and evil is still the same in both cases.
		It is certainly significant that, instead of borrowing from the abundant legends and doctrines ready to their hand in the alien systems, the rabbinical demonologists sought their starting point in some text of their own scriptures and drew forth all they wanted by means of their subtle and ingenious methods of exegesis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04713a.htm (3549 words)

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		In similar wise Herakles is parted from wrath the hero retires from the conflict, and his Myrmidons behind the dark cloud and his rays no longer appear about him.
		The Hindu understood that Dyaus ("the the dawn, and spoke significantly when he called the latter Zeus was derived from a root div, "to shine," or that Helena helped him to rise from fetichism to polytheism.
		Oidipous, of the violet dawn (Iokaste), they are alike and the dawn are both destroyed by the sun.
	www.freetemplate.ws /22/224.html (562 words)

	Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary, Da-Der; Theosophical U Press
		Daeva (Avestan) Dev (Pahlavi) Div (Persian) In the Avesta, beings of malicious intent popularly regarded as fiends or demons under the sway of Angra Mainyu.
		In Hindu mythology, the wife of Surya (the sun) is Ushas (dawn), and she is also his mother.
		Delos, the Asteria of mythology, was not really in Greece, which country did not yet exist at the time referred to in the myths; several writers have shown it to have been a far larger country or island than Greece.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/etgloss/daa-der.htm (9000 words)

	Sweet sounds from Persia - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chamrosh is a bird in Persian mythology, it lives on the summit of Mount Alburz.
		In Persian mythology, Peri is the generic name given to a good fairy or a genie.
		Persian Devas are supposed to be Nature fairies, they live in lakes, plants or trees.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan132006/sesame1826362006112.asp (868 words)

	Iran Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		TEHRAN, Dec. 29--Shahnameh is a Persian epic masterpiece in the domain of international literature in terms of aesthetics, form and content and its application in dramatic field.
		Many dramatic literature of the world have emanated from mythology which is being updated with time and in fact they have become eternal through constant updating throughout the centuries.
		Greek (Hellenic) mythology has been the source for the classic drama scripts worldwide and in Iran the translated version of drama scripts especially from Europe has been applied.
	www.iran-daily.com /1383/2177/html/art.htm (1472 words)

	Zoroastrian (ancient Iranian or Persian mythology) 3. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		According to Persian sacral texts ("Frashegird") there will be great disasters at last centuries of the world.
		Persian king Kay Kavus invasioned in to country of evil devs.
		Frashegird is an Apocalypse or of Zoroastrian mythology.
	www.redrival.com /mythology/Zoroastrian3.htm (275 words)

	Iranica.com - ENGLISH
		Although academic Persian studies may be said to have begun in England in the early 17th century with the establishment of chairs in Arabic at the two leading universities at Cambridge and Oxford, it was not until the late 18th century that the Persian poets began to be read in English translations.
		Persian has continued to be associated for English and American readers with the Victorian lexicon and thematics of FitzGerald, as Chinese has been associated with the gnomic, modernist esthetics introduced by Pound.
		His Persian works were banned in Persia under the shah and often disappeared from American university libraries at the hands of admirers or perhaps of unofficial censors.
	www.iranica.com /articles/v8f4/v8f479.html (8722 words)

	Bondari - Composer of Music
		A “div” (pronunciation: deev) often has negative associations, and in Persian mythology is an evil spirit akin to a demon that loves to cause harm and destruction.
		Divs are frequently mentioned in the Shahnameh; one famous story involves the struggle between the Persian hero Rostam and the Akvan Div, a white demon whose name means “evil mind.”
		Div was commissioned by the KU Helianthus Contemporary ensemble.
	www.bondari.com (1758 words)

	shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings, Stories from the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi
		FATHERS AND SONS, volume II of the series, opens and closes with tales of tragic conflict between a king and his son: Prince Seyavash and Prince Esfandyar are both driven from the court by their foolish fathers to confront destiny and death in distant lands.
		Here the mighty events that shook ancient Persia from the time of Alexander of Macedon’s conquest to the Arab invasion of the seventh century are reflected in the stirring and poignant narratives of Ferdowsi, the master poet who took on himself the task of preserving his country’s great pre-Islamic heritage.
		During Ferdowsi's lifetime this dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavid Turks, and there are various stories in medieval texts describing the lack of interest shown by the new ruler of Khorasan, Mahmud of Ghazni, in Ferdowsi and his lifework.
	www.mage.com /poetry/ssc.html (2115 words)

	Converted WP file 1viera
		In Hittite mythology the stone monster Ullikummi, who fights the weather god Te%ub, is a son of the major god Kumarbi and a rock, a goddess called Peruna% or Piruna%.
		In Baltic mythology, there is a deity known as Vélinas, Velnias or Véls, very well attested in folklore and toponymy, hence indicating the importance of this god in Baltic beliefs.
		Their mythology was often as inconsistent as in the case of the Slavs.
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	ANACALYPSIS
		If we may believe the literal sense of the Bible, (for a short time, the Persians excepted,) they were always at secret enmity or open war with their neighbours, the Gentiles, or the idolaters, as, by way of reproach, they are generally called.
		A wish may also exist on their parts to discover the cause of this singularity combined with the general family likeness which, notwithstanding their peculiarity, may be perceived in their ceremonies and doctrines to those of the other nations.
		The cause is to be found in the circumstance that the Jews secretly held the doctrine of the metempsychosis, and the perpetual renewal of worlds,—doctrines thought to be too sublime for vulgar comprehension.
	members.tripod.com /~pc93/anacv1b8.htm (11122 words)

	Internet Public Library: Pathfinders
		The IPL has many resources that point to information on Greek mythology in the reference, teen, and youth departments.
		A resource for those who are confused about the differences between Greek and Roman mythology.
		The Greek andRoman mythology and mythological charcters section at the Myths and Legends site provides many links to Internet resources.
	www.ipl.org /div/pf/entry/48479 (630 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Naturism
		This is the thesis of comparative mythology, which is said to reveal a primitive nature worship.
		The transition from the lowest stage to the next higher, according to him, is effected by means of the Persian dualism, the Phœnician religion of pain, and the Egyptian religion of mystery.
		But natural mythology has given place to science, which sees mechanism where will, purpose, and love had been suspected before and drops the name of God, to take up instead the less awful name of Nature.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10717a.htm (3153 words)

	The Seven Great Monarchies, by George Rawlinson, The Third Monarchy
		The southern Ecbatana or Agbatana—which the Medes and Persians themselves knew as Hagmatan—was situated, as we learn from Polybius and Diodorus, on a plan at the foot of Mont Orontes, a little to the east of the Zagros range.
		The great horse pastures, from which the Medes first and the Persians afterwards, supplied their numerous and excellent cavalry, were in this quarter; and the troops which it furnished—hardy mountaineers accustomed to brave the severity of a most rigorous climate—must have been among the most effective of the Median forces.
		The Persian mountains are a continuation of the Zagros chain, and Northern Persia is a portion—the southern portion—of the same great plateau, whose western and north-western skirts formed the great mass of the Median territory.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16163/16163-h/16163-h.htm (18492 words)

	Art Magic: Early Conceptions of the Hindoos
		In fragmentary accounts given of the most early historic people, classified as Aryan, it is asserted that they kept fires constantly burning as their chief element in religious worhip.
		In the Egyptian and Persian Theogony, the direct acknowledgment of one Supreme Being corresponding to the Sun and its attributes, is as marked as in the Aryan and Indian records.
		Referring back to the Indian and Egyptian ideas of Creation to support the idea of one supreme being is rather interesting, given that both of these faiths were polytheistic, despite the universe as being constructed from a single point.
	www.enchantedworks.com /artmagic/archives/000601.html (2509 words)

	Tahmurath (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He is called Div-band (the binder of divs) in Firdusi's Shahnameh, for he waged war on the divs and captured them all.
		In the ancient Zoroastrian scriptures of the Avesta, it is described as a gigantic bird whose resting place is the tree Jad-besh (opposed to harm of all seeds); when he rises aloft a thousand twigs shoot forth from that tree; when he alights, he will break off the thousand twigs and shed their seed.
		Kaf, Kaph, Ghaf (Persian) Kaofa (Avestan), Kafor (Pahlavi) Mountain; in Persian tradition the sacred mythological mountain, comparable in many respects to the Hindu Mount Meru; regarded as the abode of the gods and the place whither heroes travel in order to reach the sacred land beyond these mountains.
	www.experiencefestival.com /tahmurath (824 words)

	Persian Myths
		The traditional tales and stories of ancient Iran describe confrontations between good and evil, the victories of the gods, and the exploits of heroes and fabulous supernatural creatures such as the magical bird Simurgh and the div or demons.
		Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable, by Thomas Bulfinch
		Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C., by Samuel Noah Kramer
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn0292711581 (126 words)

	IRANIAN MYTHOLOGY: HAFT KHWAN- (CAIS) ©
		This judgment was mainly based on an examination of other early Persian and Arabic sources, which usually refer only to the Esfandiâr quests (see Tabari, 1st series, II, pp.
		In the final two ordeals, Rostam manages to defeat and kill his supernatural foes, most notably Ar‘ang the Div, and finally the main target of the quest, Div-e Sapid (the White Demon), thus not only securing Kâvus's freedom but also restoring his sight by bathing his eyes in the Div's blood.
		In the final stage, both physical and moral sight are restored, and the usually intemperate and irascible Kâvus decides on a magnanimous response to the conflict: he consults, and is endorsed by, Rostam and the other notables of the court, who feast together for seven days in complete harmony.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Mythology/haftkhan.htm (2671 words)

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