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Tishtrya[pronunciation?] (Avestan: 𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, romanized: Tištriia; Persian: تیر, romanized: Tir) is the
Avestan name of a
Zoroastrian benevolent...
- Zoroastrianism's
demon of drought. He is the
epitomized antithesis of
Tishtrya,
divinity of the star
Sirius and
guardian of rainfall. In
Zoroastrian tradition...
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important astral deities seem to have been Tiri and
Tishtrya. For
reasons that are unknown,
Tishtrya is ****ociated with the star
Sirius in one
Yasht that...
- gods
Apollo and Hermes. Tir
shares his name with an
Iranian god (Avestan
Tishtrya,
Modern and
Middle Persian Tir) also
identified with the
planet Mercury...
- tir or TIR may
refer to: The
modern Persian name for the
Zoroastrian god
Tishtrya Tir (month), of the
Iranian calendar Tir (god), of
ancient Armenia Tabar...
- and the
Zoroastrian rain
deity Tishtrya in his
article for
Religious Studies,
Professor Hou ****
suggested that
Tishtrya is the
archetype of the former:...
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seeds floated around the
world on the
winds of Vayu-Vata and the
rains of
Tishtrya, in
cosmology taking root to
become every type of
plant that ever lived...
- of worship",
Tishtrya is a
divinity of rain and
fertility and an
antagonist of apaosha, the
demon of drought. In this struggle,
Tishtrya is
depicted as...
-
yazatas ("good agents")
include Anahita, Sraosha, Mithra, Rashnu, and
Tishtrya.
Historian Richard Foltz has put
forth evidence that
Iranians of pre-Islamic...
- up the earth, and in
Yasht 8.44
Angra Mainyu battles but
cannot defeat Tishtrya and so
prevent the rains. In
Vendidad 19,
Angra Mainyu urges Zoroaster...
