Turya (Avesta)
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Turya or Turanian is the ethnonym of a group mentioned in the Avesta, i.e., the collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism. In those texts, the Turyas closely interact with the Aryas, i.e. the early
Illustration from the Shahnameh depicting the murder of Iraj by his brothers Sarm and Tur.
Bahram Gur Fights the Horned Wolf, folio from the Great Ilkhanid Shahnama
IRAN Miniatur by UNESCO 1957
The Court of Gayumars
Tur (Shahnameh)
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Tur is, according to the Iranian national history, the second son of Fereydun and the mythical ancestor of the Turanians. He already appeared in the, now lost, Chihrdad nask, but his story is most pro
Turya (Avesta)
…Achaemenid period. In the Avesta, the Turyas form as a people when the primordial Pishdadian ruler, Thraetaona, divides the world between his oldest son Tur, who receives the north and east, his middle son Sarm, who receives the west, and his youngest son Iraj, who receives the south. While Tur becomes the…
Qajar-era illustration of Iraj, Salm and Tur