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Anāhitā : a history and reception of the Iranian water goddess
- Title
- Anāhitā : a history and reception of the Iranian water goddess / Manya Saadi-nejad.
- Author
- Saadi-nejad, Manya
- Publication
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
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Details
- Description
- x, 251 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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." --
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Goddesses in the Ancient World -- Indo-European Water Goddesses -- ArYduuī Sūrā Anāhitā in the Avesta -- Other Iranian Goddesses: Comparisons with Anāhitā -- Anāhitā: A Composite Goddess -- Anāhitā in the Historical Period -- Anāhitā in the Pahlavi Texts -- Traces of Anāhitā in Islamic Iran.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-5271
- ISBN
- 9781838601591
- 1838601597
- 9781838601119
- 1838601112
- OCLC
- 1222798291
- Author
- Saadi-nejad, Manya, author.
- Title
- Anāhitā : a history and reception of the Iranian water goddess / Manya Saadi-nejad.
- Publisher
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2021.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Electronic version: Saadi-nejad, Manya. Anahita. First edition. [London England] : I B Tauris, 2020 9781838601584 (OCoLC)1220979791
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-5271