Anahita

A History and Reception of the Iranian Water Goddess

Manya Saadi-nejad (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2021
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9781838601591 (ISBN)

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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.

Manya Saadi-nejad is an affiliate Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. A specialist in Iranian and Comparative Mythology, she has published in the journals Iranian Studies and the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. She is also a practicing artist, trained in both classical Persian and contemporary styles, and her work has been exhibited internationally. She received her PhD in Iranian Studies from The Free University of Berlin, Germany.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	12 b/w illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781838601591 / 9781838601591
Zustand	Neuware