Med İmparatorluğu "Anahita Temple"

Anahita Temple is an impressive masonry edifice located in Kangawar ( Kangavar or Kangevar ) at the distance of 96 km east from the Kurdish city of Kermashan ( Kirmashan , Krmashan or Kermanshah ) in eastern Kurdistan ( Persian occupied Kurdistan ). Anahita Temple was built in around 200 BC in honor of a Kurdish goddess of water, fertility, and beauty. This Kurdish female guardian angel of water Anahita is principally addressed in yasht 5 ( yasna 65 ) in Avesta (the Zoroastrian holy book).

She is been depicted in Taqi Bostan (east of Kurdistan), hasankeyf (north of Kurdistan), and also revered in the ancient inscription of paikuli near Khanaqin ( xanaqin) in southern Kurdistan. One of the early references to such a temple is by the Greek geographer Isidore of Charax who reports that in Kurdistan during Parthian reign, the greatest Metropolis of Media.

The temple is 230 m long and 210 m wide with columns of 3.54 m high. Large Pieces of stone are cut and shaped into blocks of rock and columns which reveal a Hellenistic character display on Kurdish architectural designs. The constriction method of the walls of the platform and staircases in Kangawar is similar to that of Qasri shirin ( another ancient Kurdish masonry) . A Kurdish cemetery of Parthians was excavated in the hillside east of the platform. Some of the burials contained coins from Phraates I ( 171 BC) and Orodes III ( 37 BC) placed under the skull.

Further readings:

1-Abasi,Jalil,Yasna , Hevin Printing center 2008,Hawler,Kurdistan.

2-Qanaa, Wria.. Gatha of Zoroaster,Mnara printing center,2006,Hawler,Kurdistan.

3-Hawrami,Comparison between Avesta and modern Kurdish Language, sardam publishing, 2005, Sulaimania , Kurdistan.

4-Khoshnaw, Farhad,Secrets of Mithraism,Mukriani publishing center, 2008,Dhok , Kurdistan.

5-Khoshhali, Behzad,Philology of Kurdish language and history of Kurdistan,Khani Printing, 2008,Dahok, Kurdistan..

6-Diakonoff,Media ( Medya),Minstery of Culture, 2008,Hawler,Kurdistan.
7-Gadani,Jalil,The same Nationality of Kurds and Medes ,Minstery of Culture, 2004,Sulaimania,Kurdistan..

7-Hossin. Mahamad.. Zoroaster and Zoroastrians. Tafsir, Hawler, Kurdistan. 2009.
9. Mukriani, Kurdistan, The era of Kurdish language and Iranian languages .Aras publishing center, 2008,Hawler,Kurdistan.

10- Izady, Mehrdad, The Kurds . Taylor & Francis, Inc, 1992, Washington, USA.

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[goran21715]

What is this masterpiece, and the crash of this civilization? Emerge from the devastation that took place in which it Arab sacts who do not know just ruin, they Bedouins did not get used to things beautiful artistic.noticed wherever they have these actions despicable and barbaric first thing to do,they would destruction of buildings and seen the graves and erected the memorial and wipe archaeological escription and you can seen around they reach they destroy last one buddih statue in afganistan

[nabarz]

Dorrod,

The essay 'Anahita Lady of Persia' in the book 'Seething Cauldron: Essays on Zoroastrianism, Sufism, Freemasonry, Wicca, Druidry, and Thelema by Payam Nabarz' might be of interest. It also includes several modern and ancient drawing of Anahita too. ISBN: 978-0-9556858-4-2  Published: November 2010