Tag: Shahnameh

Holiday Special 2025 (Happy Sadeh!)

On By Trevor CulleyIn History of Persia, Podcast Episodes1 Comment
Modern Sadeh celebration in Iran via Wikimedia

Slightly delayed by world events, but planned and written for December 2025, History of Persia marks the Iranian and Zoroastrian holiday of Sadeh, a feast and fire to stave off the dark winter nights and celebrate light and warmth.
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The Gist of the Jashan Ceremony – https://www.avesta.org/antia/Gist_of_the_Jashan_R1.pdf

The Atash Niyayesh – https://www.avesta.org/ka/niyayesh.htm#ny5

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114: The Age of Heroes

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Humay Chehrzad, the Kayanian Queen, illustration by Jalal al-Din Mirza Jelveh Yazdi, 19th Century

After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the history of the Achaemenids slipped into legend, myth, and obscurity. By the 6th Century CE, the likes of Cyrus the Great, Darius the Great, Xerxes, and Artaxerxes had been all but forgotten in Iran. Instead, the Sassanid Persian Empire remembered the stories of great heroes from the Avesta, occupying the equivalent of the Achaemenids’ place in history.
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113: Alexander – King of the Monsters

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Iskandar (Alexander) comforts the dying Dara (Darius III-ish), illustrated Shahnameh 1604

In the centuries following Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, Iranian cultural memory changed and shifted, often in strange and unexpected ways. Alexandros Megas ton Makedon was remembered as Gizistag Iskandar-i Rhomiyag – the Accursed Alexander of Rome.
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