Mythology of Persian Deities (Persian Edition)

The “Mythology of Persian Deities” deals with the fundamental and usually ignored questions: Is there any conceptual paradigm which unifies and categorizes the large and diverse content of Persian myths? Is it possible to identify that bedrock of Persian civilization on which rests the baffling sophistication and creative bifurcations of Persian mythological narrative? Persian mythology contains a vast horizon of semantically interconnected and historically continuous narratives. Amazing and usually unknown ancient text which include Avestan, Ancient Persian, Elamite, Parthian, Pahlavi, Dari, Sogdian, Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek languages, which cover more than five millennia of continuous and accumulative cultural evolution. This book deals with ancient Iranian gods and angels, and through a systemic approach introduces a conclusive model of Persian mythology. The “Mythology of Persian Deities” is part of a series of books written by this author on the subject of Mythology, such as “Mythology of Persian Heroes”, “Mythology of Night Sky”, and “Babylonain Myth of Creation”.