Verethragna
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Verethragna or Bahram () is a Zoroastrian yazata.
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Vinony's link graph records 200 inbound references to Verethragna, and connects out to Zoroastrian festivals, Zoroastrianism and Zoroaster.
It is catalogued under topics including Ancient Iranian gods, Martian deities and Yazatas.
Vinony links it to 19 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Zoroastrian
- Deity.deity_of
- God of War and Victory Barrier-Breaker
- Deity.image
- 200px
- Deity.caption
- Relief of the God Varahram on a column in Taq-e Bostan, Sassanian period
- Deity.script_name
- Avestan
- Deity.script
- Verethragna 𐬬𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬚𐬭𐬀𐬖𐬥𐬀
- Deity.gender
- male
- Deity.planet
- Mars
- Deity.symbol
- White Horse, Strong wind, Wild Boar, Camel, Bull, Young Man, Ram, Wild Goat, Magnificent Armed Man, Bird of Prey
- Deity.affiliation
- The Thirty-Three Deities, Guardians of the Days of the Month
- Deity.day
- 20th of each month in the Iranian calendar, Tuesday of each week
- Deity.associated_deities
- Mithra, Tishtrya, Vayu-Vata
- Deity.sacred_flower
- Hyacinth
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Ares
- Deity.roman_equivalent
- Mars
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- In the Avesta
- In the ''Bahram Yasht''
- In other texts
- In culture and tradition
- In the Zoroastrian hierarchy
- As the name of a planet
- In the name of a class of fire
- In art and iconography
- As the name of kings
- In Twelver Shi'ism
- In Avestan scholarship
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
Verethragna or Bahram () is a Zoroastrian yazata.
The neuter noun verethragna is related to Avestan verethra, 'obstacle' and verethragnan, 'victorious'. Representing this concept is the divinity Verethragna, who is the hypostasis of "victory", and "as a giver of victory Verethragna plainly enjoyed the greatest popularity of old." In Zoroastrian Middle Persian, Verethragna became , from which Vahram, Vehram, Bahram, Behram and other variants derive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Verethragna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.