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	Persian Gods and Goddesses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Persian spirits of great beauty who guide mortals on their way to the Land of the Blessed.
		In ancient Persian mythology, Spenta Mainyu ("holy spirit") is the god of life and the personification of the good and the light.
		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.
	fullmoon_deities.tripod.com /persian.html (1750 words)

	Mithraism
		In the sixth and seventh century B.C., a vast reformation of the Persian pantheon was undertaken by Zarathustra (known in Greek as Zoroaster), a prophet from the kingdom of Bactria.
		Anahita was said to have conceived the Saviour from the seed of Zarathustra preserved in the waters of Lake Hamun in the Persian province of Sistan.
		As a deity connected with the sun and its life-giving powers, Mithras was known as 'The Lord of the Wide Pastures' who was believed to cause the plants to spring forth from the ground.
	www.crystalinks.com /mithra.html (2494 words)

	Welcome to Iran (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the sixth and seventh century B.C., a vast reformation of the Persian pantheon was undertaken by Zarathustra(known in Greek as Zoroaster), a prophet from the kingdom of Bactria.
		As a result of the Babylonian captivity of the Jews (597 B.C.) and their later emancipation by King Cyrus theGreat of Persia (538 B.C.), Zoroastrian dualism was to influence the Jewish belief in the existence of HaShatan, the malicious Adversary of the god Yahweh, and later permit the evolution of the Christian Satan-Jehovah dichotomy.
		Anahita was said to have conceived the Saviour from the seed of Zarathustra preserved inthe waters of Lake Hamun in the Persian province of Sistan.
	www.iranvision.com /oldiranvision/mithras.html (2655 words)

	Roman Deities
		Among the notable deities were the Phrygian Cybele, the Egyptian goddess Isis, the Celtic horse goddess Epona, and the Persian god Mithras.
		She was one of the deities in a triad that was worshipped along Jupiter and Juno on the Capitol Hill.
		These included the Celtic deities in Gaul and Britain, such as the horse goddess Epona; the Phrygian mother goddess Cybele; the Egyptian fetility and death goddess Isis; and the Persian or Indian god of light Mithra (Mithras).
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/roman.html (4874 words)

	The Persian Connection: The End of the World Begins — Patricia Eddy
		Checks and balances were thought to be provided by competing deities, as was the equilibrium of forces required to maintain the harmony of the universe.
		Aten was largely ignored by the majority of the of the population of Egypt who continued to ensure their well being by dabbling in magical spells and plying their household gods with extra goodies Aten existed for a mere 14 years, until Akhenaten died.
		The Persian concept of the messiah was a little more lavish than the Israelite no frills version; they claimed there would be three—all born of virgins.
	www.alsopreview.com /thewriters/eddy/pechap2.html (4642 words)

	Baal
		Baal is still principally thought of as a Canaanite fertility deity.
		Baal was the son of El, or Dagon, an obscure deity linked by the Hebrews with the Philistine city of Ashdod.
		Dagon was perhaps associated with the sea, as a coin found in the vicinity portrays a god having a fish tail.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/b/baal.html (1039 words)

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		The Persian crown, from which all present day crowns ar derived, was designed to represent the golden sun-disc sacred to Mithras.
		Emperor Nero adopted the radiating crown as the symbol of his sovereignty to exemplify the splendour of the rays of the sun, and to show that he was an incarnation of Mithras.
		The religion was persecuted on the grounds that it was the religion of Persians, the arch-enemies of the Romans.
	www.mithraism.erudition.net /append/mithras.txt (7238 words)

	Religions of Iran: A Brief History of Christianity in Iran [Page 2] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ctesiphon the Persian capital was totally destroyed during the Arab invasion and the Catholicos seat was moved in 762 to Baghdad.
		Saddi the grand master of Persian prose and poetry was at one point taken a prisoner during the Crusade wars and ended up as a slave/war captive.
		The establishment of a new French representative at the Persian Court helped and the Lazarists were permitted by the Persian Government to continue their work unmolested and one of their priests Father Luzel became a great favorite with Mizra Aghasi, the prime minister at the Qajar court.
	www.iranchamber.com /religions/history_of_christianity_iran2.php (4536 words)

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		Only about twenty deities are alluded to in the monumental records of either nation, and they are supposed to have represented the sun, the moon, the stars, and various other powers, to which were delegated by the unseen and occult supreme deity the oversight of this world.
		While Zeus was the supreme deity in the Greek mythology, rather than Apollo the sun, it seems that on the whole the sun was the prominent and the most commonly worshipped deity of all the Oriental nations, as being the most powerful force in Nature.
		The festivals were celebrated in honor not merely of deities, but of useful inventions, of the seasons of the year, of great national victories,--all which were religious in the pagan sense, and constituted the highest pleasures of Grecian life.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/10477/10477-8.txt (17592 words)

	Iranica.com - PONTUS
		Iranian influence ran deep, illustrated most famously by the temple of the Persian deities Anaitis, Omanes, and Anadatos at Zela, founded by victorious Persian generals in the 6th century BCE (Strabo 11.8.4 C512; 12.3.37 C559).
		Persian names, particularly Pharnakes, are found scattered around the kingdom and are held most prominently by the ruling Mithradatids, who are also the best evidence for Persian colonization of the area.
		They were a powerful and noble Persian family, probably directly related to the great Darius I himself, which in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE had held sway as dynasts over the regions of Mysia and Mariandynia on the Propontis and farther east along the south shore of the Black Sea.
	www.iranica.com /articles/ot_grp5/ot_pontus_20040616.html (1013 words)

	Herodotus, Persian Customs
		Prior to 600 BCE, the Persians were a nomadic tribe that inhabited the southern part of the area dominated by the Medes, in what is the modern country of Iran.
		Persian deities were associated with fire, and Persian worship sites often had an eternal flame.
		To the inhabitants of the ancient world, the Persian governors were representatives of an emperor who was strong enough to overcome the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his101/web/01herod.htm (984 words)

	H E R M E T I C M A G I C K -- www.hermeticmagick.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Anahita conceived Mithra from the seed of Zarathustra preserved in the waters of Lake Hamun in the Persian province of Sistan.
		Mithra was born of a mother-rock by a river under a tree or from a cave on 25 December, the old date of the midwinter solstice.
		Persian Mithraism spread to the Babylonians, who assimilated Ahuramazda to Baal, Anahita to Ishtar, and Mithras to Shamash, their solar god of justice, victory and protection.
	www.hermeticmagick.com /deities/mithras.htm (1094 words)

	Gnosticism (Rexroth)
		Eventually there were shrines to Persian and Palestinian and Egyptian saviors on the borders of Scotland; religious sculptors and painters who had learned from Praxiteles and Apelles worked in the Gobi Desert and among the recently civilized Japanese.
		By Persian times in Egypt the Ennead of Osiris had come to take the place of the original principal judges of the dead, although the unfortunate soul had to undergo a minor inquisition from dozens of petty deities or demons.
		The mysterious deity of the Templars or the erotic revels of the witches or the ceremonies of the Masons or Rosicrucians, all are aspects of a special heterodoxy that began with Gnosticism.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/essays/gnosticism.htm (4046 words)

	Roman Solar Mythology
		It was at once the duty and the pleasure of the emperor to select a consort for the deity, and to this delicate task he devoted as much thought and attention as it was in his nature to devote to anything.
		Of the mode of celebrating the festival at the Persian court we know little or nothing except that the only day on which the king was allowed to be drunk was the day on which sacrifices were offered to Mithra, and on that day he also danced a Persian dance.
		the Lydians have sanctuaries of the Persian goddess, as she is called, in the cities of Hierocaesarea and Hypaepa, and in each of the sanctuaries is a chapel, and in the chapel there are ashes on an altar, but the colour of the ashes is not that of ordinary ashes.
	library.flawlesslogic.com /frazer_2.htm (8862 words)

	The Parthenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Athena's reputation as the goddess of respectable wisdom was a later addition, strengthened by her role as patron of the Athens that brought classical Greek civilization to its height.
		While the emergence of rationalistic thinking among a small set of philosophers produced explanations of the cosmos that did not require deities, the majority of Greeks--farmers and craftsmen-- seem to have been quite traditional in fulfilling their religious obligations within the family and the polis.
		In revenge, in 490 the Persian King Darius, invaded Greece and was defeated by a mainly Athenian army at Marathon.
	www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Architecture/Parthenon/parthenon1.html (4169 words)

	Persian - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that...
		The Persian Puzzle : The Conflict Between Iran and America
		The Root of Wild Madder : Chasing the History, Mystery, and Lore of the Persian Carpet
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /persian.htm (229 words)

	Articles - List of deities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		There are also lists of deities by type; see the articles death deity, household deity, lunar deity, and solar deity.
		Egyptian deities are often portrayed as having animal heads in art; as an example, Anubis is often portrayed in statuary as having the body of a human, but the head of a canine.
		Sardinian deities, mainly referred to in the age of Nuragici people, are partly derived from Phoenician ones.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Gods?mySession=5a5b60629cf661d79a817aa028209908 (1945 words)

	Osiris
		The great deity of the Egyptians, has been by some identified with the sun, or sunlight, or the vivifying powers in nature.
		According to this view the sleep or death of Osiris means the sleep of the spring-maiden Brynhild, or the imprisonment of Persephone in the dark realm of Hades.
		Of the analogy between these two on the one hand, and the old Persian deities of good and evil, we have already spoken.
	www.whiterosesgarden.com /deities/DTY_Egyptian/EGYT_Osiris.htm (1014 words)

	Thraco-Dacian mythological images.
		As writes Adrian Dalicovitchin: "It there was polytheistic religion inside which the main deities were Zalmoxis (a chthonic deity), Hebeleyzis (a heavenly deity), Bendis (the goddess like Greek Artemis) and a deity like Roman Mars.
		As it was already spoken, the Persian and Greek influences were reflected in it.
		Last, having the prototype of the real Roman aristocrat living in epoch of emperor Diokletian, has turned to an image combining features dying and a reviving agrarian deity with features of the hero, winning dragon or (is symptomatic) - the wolf.
	mythologies.bravepages.com /myth.htm (1730 words)

	The Domain of Baal -- Resurrecting interest in the ancient deity. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Baal was a common name for several small Syrian and Persian deities, but principally known as a Canaanite fertility deity.
		Some academics argue that these beliefs led to the monotheistic conception of supreme deity, the Lord of Heaven, of whom the various Baals would be different manifestations of the same deity.
		Related to such phases is certainly the weeping of the women in Jerusalem for Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14) and possibly the annual lamentation of the maidens of Israel, which may be only secondarily related to the mourning for Jephthah's daughter (Judges 11-39-40).
	www.baal.com /baal/about/divine_overview.shtml (2478 words)

	Iranica.com - MITHRA IN MANICHEISM
		The divine title of Mithra in Middle Persian and Parthian Manichean texts is invariably yazad (divinity), which differs from the Old Persian convention that regarded Mithra as a baga- (q.v.), if a title was given to him at all.
		In Mani's ˆa@buhraga@n and in all later Middle Persian texts Mihr denotes the Living Spirit, the subjugator of the demons who had attacked the World of Light and captured the First Man and his sons.
		The theory that Parthian and Sogdian Manicheans, in contrast to the Persians, called the Third Messenger Mithra, simply because their Mithra was already a solar deity, was decidedly disputed by Ilya Gershevitch, who justly pointed out that in Sogdian the sun god is called Mithra only and exclusively in Manichean texts.
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Mithra.html (1003 words)

	J.G. Frazer: Worship of The Sun V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The meaning and etymology of these two barbarous names are uncertain, attempts to derive them from the Persian appear to have hitherto failed; but from some of the inscriptions in which they occur it seems indubitable that both names are merely epithets of Mithra himself.
		He declares that the Sun is the common Father of all men, since he begat us and feeds us and gives us all good things; there is no single blessing in our lives which we do not receive from him alone, or at the hand of the other gods perfected by him.
		However the deity to whom he prayed may have granted him a virtuous life, he withheld from his worshipper the boon of an easy and peaceful end.
	members.aol.com /zoticus/bathlib/helios/romans.htm (8828 words)

	Ancient Persian Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The architect of this religion, Zoroaster created many feasts and celebrations to pay homage to many deities and yazata (Izads) who symbolized all forces beneficial to humans.
		Yalda, a Syric word imported into the Persian language by the Syric Christians means birth (tavalud and melaad are from the same origin).
		Forty days before the next major Persian festival ‘Jashn e Sadeh’; this night has been celebrated in countless cultures for thousands of years.
	www.iranonline.com /festivals (511 words)

	Deity Temple, Room One - Major Canaanite Deities
		She is goddess of the sea, particularly along the shore, of the fertility of humanity, flocks, and crops, and of great wisdom.
		Small household deity figurines of clay used in personal devotion, possibly teraphim, have been found by the thousands in Palestine/ Israel, from the Israelite period, unmatched by any male figurines.
		Some of the confusion is attributable to a late Hellenistic syncretic deity worshipped as Heliogabalus, a blending of Ba`al with the Greek sun god Helios and some Persian deities.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/2938/majdei.html (4135 words)

	Polytheology, Part 4: The Deities
		Warrior deities were frequently also fertility, sex, and "star" deities (especially, but not limited to the planet Venus as the Morning and Evening Stars).
		Another problem area in the works of Jungians is their stress on Greek deities to the exclusion of deities of other cultures, as if they are not valid representations of human archetypes.
		An analysis of the cultural biases which have led to the assumption that the real deity of the Sun is male and the real deity of the Moon is female.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Lofts/2938/poly4.html (3292 words)

	Articles - Persian mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Even then the Persians living south of the Caspian Sea continued to worship the demon and resisted pressure to accept Zoroastrianism.
		The most famous legendary character in the Persian epics and mythology is Rostam.
		On the other side of the fence is Zahhak, a symbol of despotism who was finally defeated by Kaveh the Blacksmith who led a popular uprising against him.
	www.sidepoint.com /articles/Persian_mythology (331 words)

	Mithra and Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		reformation of the Persian pantheon was undertaken by Zarathustra
		With the rapid expansion of the Persian Empire, the worship of Mithras
		Persians through the Phrygians of Turkey to the Romans.
	www.vetssweatshop.net /dogma.htm (2726 words)

	Between the Rivers: Deities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Like those of later peoples, the deities of Sumeria were like man. They shared the same loves, hates, passions and even some laws that mankind had for themselves.
		The Persian deities are mostly different in name from those of Mesopotamia, but there are striking similarities.
		The Akkadian deities were similar to those found in Mesopotamia.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Board/108823 (265 words)

	Sun Worship
		Note also that the Persian law-giver Zoroaster was exactly thirty when the spirit of god descended on him, and the Egyptian Pharaoh's held a celebration called Sed exactly 30 years after the day they had been chosen by their father as his successor, their spiritual birthday.
		The Persians conquered and blended with Babylon, and Mithras rose to the supreme position and became an intensely ethical deity.
		The horns of the older deities and the rays of light radiating from the heads of Hindu and Pagan gods show that gods were often given the attributes of the sun.
	smithbrad.nventure.com /sunworship.htm (19938 words)

	Thousands of NAMES OF Arab/Muslim, Iran, Turkey, Kurds, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Jewish/Israeli - Rulers, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Arabic is the main language of eighteen countries (about 180 million people) and is the sixth most commonly spoken language worldwide.
		Names from famous people that lived in the former Persia and/or were part of the great Persian Empire (usually the Kings or their relatives)
		The cities of Phoenicia were dominated by the Egyptians, Amorites, the Hyksos, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans at various times in their long history.
	www.lowchensaustralia.com /names/middleeast.htm (982 words)

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