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- Tishtrya[pronunciation?] (Avestan: 𐬙𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀, romanized: Tištriia; Persian: تیر, romanized: Tir) is the Avestan name of a Zoroastrian benevolent...
- 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...
- 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...
- Zoroastrianism's demon of drought. He is the epitomized antithesis of Tishtrya, divinity of the star Sirius and guardian of rainfall. In Zoroastrian tradition...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...