Manya Saadi-Nejad

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Anahita: A History and Reception of the Iranian Water GoddessPaperback, 28 January 2021

Anahita: A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess
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Print Length
264 pages
Language
English
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company
Date Published
28 Jan 2021
ISBN-10
1838601112
ISBN-13
9781838601119

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Manya Saadi-Nejad
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
28 January 2021
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1838601112
ISBN-13:
9781838601119
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
264
Weight:
417.3 gm

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