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Iranian mythology
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  • religious sites of ancient Indo-Iranian peoples
    ancient Iranian religion
    / Creation of the cosmos

    …gigantic three-story barnlike structure (vara) to hold pairs of animals and seeds of plants. From the fragmentary version of the myth that has survived, it appears that the vara is actually a sort of paradise or island of the blessed, though this story originated as a pastoralist myth about…

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    …gigantic three-story barnlike structure (vara) to hold pairs of animals and seeds of plants. From the fragmentary version of the myth that has survived, it appears that the vara is actually a sort of paradise or island of the blessed, though this story originated as a pastoralist myth about…

    Read More