- of Indo-Iranian origin. Tir is ****ociated with the star Sirius,
called Tishtar, in
Modern Persian. In a hymn of the
Avesta incorporated by
Ferdowsi in...
- 1. The
festivity refers to
archangel Tir (literally
meaning arrow) or
Tishtar (lightning), who
appear in the sky to
generate thunder and
lightning for...
-
Sirius appears as
Tishtrya and is
revered as the rain-maker
divinity (
Tishtar of New
Persian poetry).
Beside p****ages in the
sacred texts of the Avesta...
- Sun" 7
verses 7. Mah
Yasht Maonghah of the "Moon" 7
verses 8.
Tishtar Yasht Tishtrya, the star
Sirius 62
verses 9.
Drvasp Yasht Drvaspa...
-
strength and
appointed power of
those constellations. 7. As it is said that
Tishtar is the
chieftain of the east,
Sataves the
chieftain of the west, Vanand...
-
Apaosha now
appears as
Middle Persian Aposh (apōš), and
Tishtrya is now
Tishtar or Tishter. In the Bundahishn, a
cosmological fable completed in the 12th...
- Hoffman's Ishtar,
Merritt said that it was a pity that the film was not
named "
Tishtar."
because then "if you
spelled it backwards, it
would almost write its...
