The Faravahar, also known as Farr-e Kiyani or Forouhar, is one of the best-known ancient symbols of Zoroastrianism. The symbol has existed since ancient ...

The Simurgh is a prophetic, legendary bird in ancient Persian mythology that nests on the Tree of Knowledge. It’s known as the mysterious, gigantic healing ...

Ancient Persian symbols are known to be both mystic and majestic, seen dominantly in ancient lithographic scriptures. These have carried their legacy into ...

Yalda Night, also called Shab-e Yalda, or by its original name - Shab-e Chelleh, is one of the oldest holidays in Iran and in the world as a whole. ...

There aren’t many mythologies out there that denote the same deity as representing both fertility and war. That sounds very much like it being a deity of ...

Ancient Persian religion (also called Iranian paganism) existed before Zoroastrianism became the main religion of the region. While there is very little ...

The god of light and wisdom, Ahura Mazda is the principal deity of Zoroastrianism, the ancient Iranian religion which influenced the world before Greece ...

The lion and sun (Persian: شیر و خورشید) motif features a lion looking to its left, holding a sword in one paw with the rays of the sun shining behind it. ...

Goethe once expressed his judgment about Persian literature: "The Persians had seven great poets, each of whom is a little greater than me.” Goethe ...

Zarathustra or Zoroaster, as he’s called in Greek, is the ancient prophet of Zoroastrianism. A figure with an unimaginable and incalculable influence over ...