Bryant says, "Ad and Ada signify the first." The Persians called the first man "Ad-amah." "Adon" was one of the names of the Supreme God of the Phœnicians; from it was derived the name of the Greek god "Ad-onis." The Arv-ad of Genesis was the Ar-Ad of the Cushites; it is now known as Ru-Ad.
Sir William Jones gives the tradition of the Persians as to the earliest ages.
He says: "Moshan assures us that in the opinion of the best informed Persians the first monarch of Iran, and of the whole earth, was Mashab-Ad; that he received from the Creator, and promulgated among men a sacred book, in a heavenly language, to which the Mussulman author gives the Arabic title of 'Desatir,' or 'Regulations.' Mashab-Ad was, in the opinion of the ancient Persians, the person left at the end of the last great cycle, and consequently the father of the present world.
In the Persian story he appears as Yima, and "is made ruler of the golden age and founder of the Paradise." (Ibid., p.
We thus find the sons of Ad at the base of all the most ancient races of men, to wit, the Hebrews, the Arabians, the Chaldeans, the Hindoos, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Mexicans, and the Central Americans; testimony that all these races traced their beginning back to a dimly remembered Ad-lantis.
The Persian Magi possessed a tradition in which the waters issued from the oven of an old woman.
Herodotus (Histories, Book I) provides a detailed account of Babylon's conquest by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE.
For instance, they all relate that Friso came from India, and that thus the Frisians were of Indian descent; and yet they add that Friso was a German, and belonged to a Persian race which Herodotus called Germans (Γερμάνιοι).
Strabo alone of all the Greek writers relates that Nearchus, after he had landed his troops in the Persian Gulf, at the mouth of the Pasitigris, sailed out of the Persian Gulf by Alexander’s command, and steered round Arabia through the Arabian Gulf.
Alexander having accomplished his voyage and the transport of his troops, had no further use for the ships in the Persian Gulf, but wished to employ them in the Mediterranean.
He later encountered a spiritual teacher named Ashkenazi, who had Persian-Atlantean ancestry.
By the 6th century BC, Persian rule took over, and Phoenicia became a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire.
Summary: The Persian Empire was vast and powerful, known for its administration, infrastructure, and tolerance of diverse cultures.
Kedarites, Dedanites: Arabian tribes, significant in trade during the Persian and Greek periods.
Chest and Arms of Silver: Symbolizes the Medo-Persian Empire that would succeed Babylon.
Chest and Arms of Silver: Symbolizes the Medo-Persian Empire that would succeed Babylon.
"Also the magus Zoroaster, in his sacred collection of Persian lore, says just this: ‘The one who has the head of a hawk is god.
Mount Cithaeron is historically significant due to its proximity to the site of the Battle of Plataea, fought in 479 BCE during the Greco-Persian Wars.
The battle was a decisive Greek victory against the Persians and marked the end of the Persian invasion of Greece.
Berossus describes an amphibious being who rises from the Erythraean Sea (the Persian Gulf) to teach letters, cities, temples, laws, and agriculture.
Mythological Role: In some accounts, Oannes would emerge from the Persian Gulf each day to instruct humanity, returning to the sea each night.
In the daytime he came up to the seashore of the Persian Gulf and instructed mankind in writing, the arts, and the sciences.
He is said to have dwelled in the Persian Gulf but would come ashore during the day to interact with humans.
Persian cycle (followers of Zoroaster): 12,000 years.
Paschal Beverly Randolph provides an account of Kyomarz (also spelled Kyomurz) in "Pre-Adamite Man" as part of his exploration of ancient Persian traditions.
"When all this was done, God called into existence a being named Kyomarz, or Gil-Shah; and he was the father of all the present human race—that is to say, of the Persians.
Creation of Kyomarz: Randolph describes Kyomarz, or Gil-Shah, as a primordial being created by God to be the progenitor of the Persian people.
Kyomarz is equated with the concept of the "First Man" and is described as the first king, emphasizing his foundational role in human history according to Persian tradition.
Randolph uses the figure of Kyomarz to illustrate the deep antiquity and mythological richness of Persian traditions, aligning with his broader argument for the existence of pre-Adamite civilizations.
Paschal Beverly Randolph writes about Mahabad in "Pre-Adamite Man," explaining that Mahabad is a significant figure in ancient Persian mythology and history.
Great Cycles and Intelligent Beings: Randolph discusses the concept of time in Persian tradition, which is divided into a succession of great cycles.
This account places Mahabad at the center of a mythological narrative that underscores the cyclical nature of time and civilization in ancient Persian beliefs, supporting Randolph’s broader thesis of ancient, pre-Adamite civilizations.
Under Persian rule, exiled Judeans were allowed to return and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, marking the beginning of the Second Temple period.
The influence of Zoroastrianism during the Persian period is evident in some theological developments, such as concepts of dualism and eschatology.
The interactions with various empires and cultures, from the Assyrians and Babylonians to the Persians and Hellenistic Greeks, further enriched and diversified Yahwistic religious traditions, contributing to the complex tapestry of Abrahamic religions.
There was an ancient tradition among the Persians that the Phoenicians migrated from the shores of the Erythraean Sea.
This may refer to the Atlantic coast of Spain, rather than the Persian Gulf.
Persian Magi: A flood originates from an oven, a story later adapted by the Koran.
Yima, also known as Jamshid in later Persian mythology, was a legendary king and a central figure in Zoroastrian tradition.
Third Sub-Race: Persian
Persian story books and Nabatean farm legends tell that kind of story too.
Persians call the flat-headed men Nim-ser.
Divs are demonic or anti-divine beings in Persian tradition.
This is a Persian and Eastern story book.
So do Nabatean legends of people before Adam, and Persian story-book races before Adam.
But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days.
The Persian story, adopted by the Arabs, is that the forbidden fruit was wheat, and that it grew on a tree whose trunk resembled gold and its branches silver.
In Modern Persian, Sirius is called Tishtar or Tir, derived from the same root.
They occupied a large tract of country in Southern Arabia, extending from Umman at the mouth of the Persian Gulf to Hadhramaut and Yemen at the southern end of the Red Sea.
The concept of subterranean dwarfs in Iranian folklore is a fascinating aspect of Persian mythical traditions.
In some Persian tales, some dwarfs are believed to live underground.
In ancient Persian mythology, Peris are often described as beautiful, winged, fairy-like beings.
In Turkic and Persian lore, Guls are a type of demon, often described as monstrous.