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Old Avestan: "mithrem vouru-gaoyaoitîm, jakhaurvånghem, ýô zem-frathå aiwyâiti, pasca hû frâshmô-dâitîm, marezaiti va karana, ainghå zemô ýat pathanayå, SKANERAYA dûraêpârayå, vîspem imat âdidhâiti, ýat añtare zãm asmanemca..." English: "We sacrifice unto…
—Taking into account the antiquity of the Avestan language and Mihr Yasht in general (written ~1500 BC.), this can be counted amongst the first, if not the first, mention of a spherical shape of the earth.
"I Shapur, King of Kings, partner with the Stars, brother of the Sun and Moon, to my brother Constantius Caesar offer most ample greetings. I rejoice and at last take pleasure that you have returned to the best course and acknowledged the inviolable sanction of justice, having learned from actual experience what havoc has been caused at various times by obstinate covetousness of what belongs to others. Since therefore the consideration of truth ought to be free and untrammelled, and it befits those in high station to speak as they feel, I shall state my proposal in brief terms, recalling that what I am about to say I have often repeated. That my forefathers' empire reached as far as the river Strymon and the boundaries of Macedonia even your own ancient records bear witness; these lands it is fitting that I should demand, since (and may what I say not seem arrogant) I surpass the kings of old in magnificence and array of conspicuous virtues."
—Shahanshah Shapur II (r. 309–379), in a letter to Constantine I.
—Shahanshah Shapur II (r. 309–379), in a letter to Constantine I.
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"I Shapur, King of Kings, partner with the Stars, brother of the Sun and Moon, to my brother Constantius Caesar offer most ample greetings. I rejoice and at last take pleasure that you have returned to the best course and acknowledged the inviolable sanction…
—The account of this letter is hereby given in Amm. Marcellinus, Res Gestae ,17.5.3-4.
Two rock reliefs from Rabana & Merquly fortresses of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.
Dating to the Middle-Parthian period (1st ct. BC - 1st ct. AD), these reliefs could be depicting two Arsacid Shahanshahs of their time.
Pictures from: Brown et. al. (2018)
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Dating to the Middle-Parthian period (1st ct. BC - 1st ct. AD), these reliefs could be depicting two Arsacid Shahanshahs of their time.
Pictures from: Brown et. al. (2018)
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"The Zoroastrians...in Persia and other parts of Asia have had lived under the rule of Arabian, Ottoman and Tatar tyrants. When their fame and glory had reached in the farthest parts of the world, their good possessions such as their martial traditions, literature and artistry were adopted by the Goths, the Franks and others and thus changes were made in the traditions, literature and lifestyle of the people of Italy, France and Spain. Yet all this harm was done to the people of Persia. Those who visit the country ask themselves, 'Do Persians today still fruit the glory and gentility our ancestors remember from them?'"
—García de Silva Figueroa (1550-1624), Spanish ambassador of Philip II to Shah Abbas I of Iran, "Totius legationis suae et Indicarum rerum Persidisque commentarii".
—García de Silva Figueroa (1550-1624), Spanish ambassador of Philip II to Shah Abbas I of Iran, "Totius legationis suae et Indicarum rerum Persidisque commentarii".
"García de Silva Figueroa: The epic of the Spanish soldier who discovered Persepolis."
https://www.archyde.com/the-epic-of-the-spanish-soldier-who-discovered-persepolis-and-the-world-forgot-it-for-centuries/
https://www.archyde.com/the-epic-of-the-spanish-soldier-who-discovered-persepolis-and-the-world-forgot-it-for-centuries/
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The epic of the Spanish soldier who discovered Persepolis and the world forgot it for centuries - Archyde
On July 17, 1618, García de Silva y Figueroa was finally before Abbas the Great of Iran. Sent by Philip III as ambassador, it took ... Read more
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"Sasanian Stamp Seals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art", by Christopher J. Brunner - 1978 - New York.
"Khosrow (I) Anushirwan has thus said: 'All Lords, kings, powerful men and everyone else must know these words and inevitably make use of them. Mortality, Humility, and Contentment.
To know one is mortal is to know what can happen to him in daily life.
With humility one knows that even the worst events can happen to oneself.
And with contentment, at times of unavoidable catastrophe, one can cease from adding to the injury.'"
—Dinkard VI.
To know one is mortal is to know what can happen to him in daily life.
With humility one knows that even the worst events can happen to oneself.
And with contentment, at times of unavoidable catastrophe, one can cease from adding to the injury.'"
—Dinkard VI.
Remains and 3D reconstruction of the Sassanian fire altar of Bandian, Dargaz, Khorasan.
ca. 5th century AD.
ca. 5th century AD.
Zoroastrian miniature art in the far East: Decorative reliefs from the Sarcophagus of Wirkak and Wiyusi, Chang'an (Xi'an), Northern-Central China.
ca. 579 AD.
ca. 579 AD.
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Zoroastrian miniature art in the far East: Decorative reliefs from the Sarcophagus of Wirkak and Wiyusi, Chang'an (Xi'an), Northern-Central China. ca. 579 AD.
"The sarcophagus of Wirkak and Wiyusi demonstrates the presence among 6th-century Sogdians of two Zoroastrian eschatological idea complexes. In terms of personal eschatology, the carvings... ...confirm belief in a post-mortem process of judgment, escorted welcome, and conveyance into Garōdmān [Heaven], initiated by a funerary ritual still in practice among Zoroastrians today..."
—Gulacsi et al. (2012)
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—Gulacsi et al. (2012)
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