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Tishtrya[pronunciation?] (Avestan: 𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, romanized: Tištriia; Persian: تیر, romanized: Tir) is the
Avestan name of a
Zoroastrian benevolent...
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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...
- 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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Zoroastrian deity or spirit: - **
Tishtrya (Aldebaran)**: The
deity of rain and fertility,
celebrated in the Tir Yasht,
where Tishtrya battles drought-bringing...
- and the
Zoroastrian rain
deity Tishtrya in his
article for
Religious Studies,
Professor Hou ****
suggested that
Tishtrya is the
archetype of the former:...
- 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...
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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...
- religions.
These yazatas include Anahita, Sraosha, Mithra, Rashnu, and
Tishtrya.
Historian Richard Foltz has put
forth evidence that
Iranians of the pre-Islamic...
- 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...
- also
coincided with the
coming of the rain. The
fourth Persian month was
Tishtrya (Sirius, rain star). The
vernal equinox at
Greenwich fell on the first...
