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portada Anahita: A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
264
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9781838601591
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Anahita: A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess

Manya Saadi-Nejad (Author) · Bloomsbury Publishing · Hardcover

Anahita: A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess - Manya Saadi-Nejad

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Synopsis "Anahita: A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess "

Anahita was the most important goddess of pre-Islamic Iran. From her roots as an ancient Indo-European water deity her status was unrivalled by any other Iranian goddess throughout the course of three successive Iranian empires over a period of a thousand years. The first scholarly book on Anahita, this study reconstructs the Indo-European water goddess through a comparison of Celtic, Slavic, Armenian and Indo-Iranian myths and rituals. Anahita’s constantly-evolving description and functions are then traced through the written and iconographic records of Iranian societies from the Achaemenid period onwards, including but not limited to the Zoroastrian texts and the inscriptions and artistic representations of the great pre-Islamic Iranian empires. The study concludes by tracing survival of the goddess in Islamic Iran, as seen in new Persian literature and popular rituals. Manya Saadi-nejad demonstrates the close relationship between Iranian mythology and that of other Indo-European peoples, and the significant cultural continuities from Iran’s pre-Islamic period into the Islamic present.

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