Piran Viseh
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Piran e Viseh is a Turanian figure in Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran. Beside Shahnameh, Piran is also mentioned in other sources such as Tabari and Tha'ālibī. He is the king of Khotan an
Dar e Sufa.
Bahram Gur Fights the Horned Wolf, folio from the Great Ilkhanid Shahnama
IRAN Miniatur by UNESCO 1957
The Court of Gayumars
A Proto-Indo-European thunder god, reconstructed as *Perkʷūnos, was the weather god in Proto-Indo-European mythology. The deity is thought to be associated with fructifying rains, and his name was pro
Piran Viseh
…Patrice Lajoye, Piran may not have been a real historical figure at all, but rather a euhemerized thunder deity descended from the Proto-Indo-European Perkwunos, whose name is cognate with the Slavic Perun and Sanskrit Parjanya. Zibad…
The Hand of Perkūnas by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1909). Note that Perkʷunos should be represented with a thunderstone, as the depiction of the hand holding the thunderbolt is of Near Eastern origin.