Persian Mythology

Ahura Mazda (Ahura Mazdah, Auhar Mazd) In Persian mythology, good creator god, the wise lord, later called Ohrmazd (Ormuzd). Ahura ...

Ahurani In Persian mythology, water goddess who watches over rainfall as well as standing water; invoked for health and healing, ...

Airyaman In Persian mythology, god of healing, invoked against disease, sorcerers, and Demons. The good god, Ahura Mazda, called on ...

Bahram Fire (Berezisauanh) In Persian mythology, sacred fire that represents all fires and shoots up before the good god, Ahura ...

Bahram Gur (Bahramgor, Bahram Gor) In Persian mythology, a hero king appearing in the epic poem Shah Namah by Firdusi, ...

Chinvat (Chinvad, Kinvad) In Persian mythology, a bridge over which all souls of the dead must pass on their way ...

Daena (Din, Dino) In Persian mythology, an angel, the personification of Zoroastrian law and religion, who presides over the 24th ...

Dakhma (Dahkma) Tower of Silence in Zoroastrian funeral rites, where the bodies of the dead are left to be eaten ...

Mithras (Mithra) In Persian mythology, god of life, heat, fertility, a mediator between the gods and men, and chief aide ...

Mitokht is in Persian mythology, a demon of falsehood; son of the evil spirit, Ahriman. SOURCE: Encyclopedia of World Mythology ...

Thousand and One Nights, The (The Arabian Nights) English translation of the Arabic collection of tales, Alf Laylah wa-laylah, which ...