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Mythology of Arash Kamangir
Tirgan feast is the day that heroic Iranian archer Arash put his life on an arrow and threw it by a bow from the top of Iran's highest peak to demarcate Iran's border with Turan. (archer and archery comes from Iranian hero name Arash).
Bows played a very important role in Iranian military history. In our history, all Achaemenian kings had pride in their bows and skills in archery. The legend “Arash Kamangir” describes that the borders of Iran were determined by the archer Arash who put all his force in drawing a powerful bow to the extent that all his life energy transferred to the arrow, a shot which flew for a very long distance. The legend describes that Arash died immediately after shooting that arrow. Many Iranian children read this story and are sad about the tragic end of it and are proud of the heroic act of Arash Kamangir.
Arash the Archer
Âraŝ, the Archer (Persian: آرش کمانگیر Āraš-e Kamāngīr) is a heroic archer of the Persian mythology. Being celebrated by poets such as Ferdowsi, the name Arash is one of the most popular in the Persian-speaking world.
At the end of war between Iran and Turan, Turan had advanced close to the Damavand mountain area. Damavand in Iranian mythology is the very heart and centre of the Middle Clime where Iranian people reside. This Middle Clime or Iran Zamin, incorporating far larger area than present Iran, was reputed to have the best soil, most moderate weather and the greatest of peoples. However to the east of the Iranian plateau lay the vast expanses of the wintry Southern Siberia where the nomadic and covetous Turanians lived and the story of early Iranian civilizations is that of survival against Turan.The humiliation of conquest was to be complete with a Turanian proposal to limit Iran to the radius of an arrow's flight from the umbilical Damavand. Iranians were to shoot an arrow towards Turan and wherever the arrow landed, the new border between Iran and Turan would be drawn. Âraŝ, an old man, volunteered to shoot the arrow. On the bright morning of Tirgan, Âraŝ stripped naked, faced north, strained his bow as never before, let the arrow fly and, exhausted, became one with the arrow and disappeared. The arrow flew the entire morning and fell at noon on the far bank of the Oxus River in what is now Central Asia. The Oxus river is the traditional boundary between the Iranian world and outer central Asia or Turan. Âraŝ's body was never found. There are still stories from travelers who, lost in the mountains, hear Arash Kamangir's voice who helps them find their way and thus saves their lives.Links Parstv , Persianmirror , Wikipedia
Tirgan feast is the day that heroic Iranian archer Arash put his life on an arrow and threw it by a bow from the top of Iran's highest peak to demarcate Iran's border with Turan. (archer and archery comes from Iranian hero name Arash).
Bows played a very important role in Iranian military history. In our history, all Achaemenian kings had pride in their bows and skills in archery. The legend “Arash Kamangir” describes that the borders of Iran were determined by the archer Arash who put all his force in drawing a powerful bow to the extent that all his life energy transferred to the arrow, a shot which flew for a very long distance. The legend describes that Arash died immediately after shooting that arrow. Many Iranian children read this story and are sad about the tragic end of it and are proud of the heroic act of Arash Kamangir.
Arash the Archer
Âraŝ, the Archer (Persian: آرش کمانگیر Āraš-e Kamāngīr) is a heroic archer of the Persian mythology. Being celebrated by poets such as Ferdowsi, the name Arash is one of the most popular in the Persian-speaking world.
At the end of war between Iran and Turan, Turan had advanced close to the Damavand mountain area. Damavand in Iranian mythology is the very heart and centre of the Middle Clime where Iranian people reside. This Middle Clime or Iran Zamin, incorporating far larger area than present Iran, was reputed to have the best soil, most moderate weather and the greatest of peoples. However to the east of the Iranian plateau lay the vast expanses of the wintry Southern Siberia where the nomadic and covetous Turanians lived and the story of early Iranian civilizations is that of survival against Turan.The humiliation of conquest was to be complete with a Turanian proposal to limit Iran to the radius of an arrow's flight from the umbilical Damavand. Iranians were to shoot an arrow towards Turan and wherever the arrow landed, the new border between Iran and Turan would be drawn. Âraŝ, an old man, volunteered to shoot the arrow. On the bright morning of Tirgan, Âraŝ stripped naked, faced north, strained his bow as never before, let the arrow fly and, exhausted, became one with the arrow and disappeared. The arrow flew the entire morning and fell at noon on the far bank of the Oxus River in what is now Central Asia. The Oxus river is the traditional boundary between the Iranian world and outer central Asia or Turan. Âraŝ's body was never found. There are still stories from travelers who, lost in the mountains, hear Arash Kamangir's voice who helps them find their way and thus saves their lives.Links Parstv , Persianmirror , Wikipedia
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