#Simurgh

Ali Nabavizadeh 🐘🦕

Forgotten Creatures of Persian Mythology -- A Thread: Azhdaha - A dragon the size of a mountain with enormous horns and in the form of a snake or lizard that

The djinn/jinn are the most famous beings of the Middle East and Islam, but Middle Eastern folklore is full of fantastic creatures. Some of them are terrifying and others benevolent.

Alison M. Vacca

A thread on princes executed during the reign of the caliph Hādī (169/785 -170/786). Let me introduce you to Hamazasp Arcruni, #Armenian prince of Vaspurakan. his brother Sahak is right

Las Plumas de Sīmurgh

PlumasDeSimurgh

We promised our friends from @MazanderCast we would translate our thread about our #ships inside the Shāh-nāmeh, the "Book of Kings" Many of these couples are not canonical, we'll let

Wyatt, Austere Deplorable

Astana Kazakhstan is a city which takes the form of a magical diagram upon the ground. I feel that i am only scratching the surface of the many layers of

OH AND DANG IT, I'M DOING IT. Hang on tight, it's gonna be one hell of a ride (even though I haven't this much characters, I realise now...) Mareritt ("nightmare"

The cosmic movements of the heavenly bodies has always intrigued mankind all throughout history. To depict this "moving of the gods", the earliest civilizations used feathered wings to symbolize the

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Going to start a thread about architecture in Khorasan and Khwarezm and also its offshoot, India:The Tilla Kari madrasa was commissioned a decade after the adjacent Shir Dar madrasa (1619-1636)