Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781838601119 |
| ISBN10: | 1838601112 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 264 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Weight: | 418 g |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 12 b/w illustrations |
| 275 |
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Anahita
A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Date of Publication: 28 January 2021
Number of Volumes: Paperback
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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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transcriptions
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Goddesses in the Ancient World
Chapter Two: Indo-European Water Goddesses
Chapter Three: Areduui Sura Anahita in the Avesta
Chapter Four: Other Iranian Goddesses: Comparisons with Anahita
Chapter Five: Anahita: A Composite Goddess
Chapter Six: Anahita in the Historical Period
Chapter Seven: Anahita in the Pahlavi Texts
Chapter Eight: Traces of Anahita in Islamic Iran
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Transcriptions
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Goddesses in the Ancient World
Chapter Two: Indo-European Water Goddesses
Chapter Three: Areduui Sura Anahita in the Avesta
Chapter Four: Other Iranian Goddesses: Comparisons with Anahita
Chapter Five: Anahita: A Composite Goddess
Chapter Six: Anahita in the Historical Period
Chapter Seven: Anahita in the Pahlavi Texts
Chapter Eight: Traces of Anahita in Islamic Iran
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
