description: It's the cultural information that never seems to make it into history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests, magic symbols. This series captures, culture by culture, the intersection of imagination, history, wisdom, dream, and reality.Wise Lord of the Sky traces the growth of the rich world of Persian myth, from its roots in Assyro-Babylonian and Aryan belief, to the complex system that eventually emerged. Covers the early worship of archaic gods, the fire cults, the religion of the Magi, the birth of Islam and Sufism, and the creation of Indian mythology by its Persian conquerors.
language: English
title: Wise Lord of the Sky: Persian Myth
titlecomplete: Wise Lord of the Sky: Persian Myth (Myth & Mankind)
genres: History, Mythology, Reference, Iran, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 49
series: Myth and Mankind
publisher: Time Life Medical