Keyumars

Also known as Kayumars

Keyumars or Kiomars is a legendary figure from Iranian mythical history, appearing in both the Avesta and the Shahnameh.

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Character.name: Keyumars
Character.image: Ahrimane_(Mythologie_pittoresque%2C_pl._18).jpg
Character.caption: Ahriman, in the form of a serpent, suffocates the primordial bull, from which the primordial man Keyumars emerges.

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In Zoroastrian literature
The story of his creation
In the ''Shahnameh''
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Keyumars or Kiomars is a legendary figure from Iranian mythical history, appearing in both the Avesta and the Shahnameh.

In the Avesta he is the mythological first human being in the world. The Avestan form means "the living mortal", from 'life' and 'mortal, human being'; cf. Persian 'human' (). The corresponding name in Middle Persian is ''''''. In Ferdowsi's Shahnameh he appears as the first shah of the world. He is also called the (), the first to practice justice, the lawgiver.