Secondary sources report that Adur Farnbag, together with Adur Gushnasp and Adur Burzen‑Mihr, was 'installed' as one of the three Great or Royal fires in the Parthian period and maintained into the Sasanian era. The sources treat these fires as institutional sacred loci that were established at key sites of ritual and political significance in late antique Iran; they do not supply a mythic biography or an anthropomorphic origin narrative for Adur Farnbag itself.
Adur Farnbag is described in the sources not as an anthropomorphic being but as a continuously tended sacred fire housed within a fire‑temple or temple complex. No personified visual form is given. One tourism source reports (uncertainly) that Adur Farnbag was located at Karyan in modern Fars Province; more general treatments place it among the three geographically distributed Great Fires of Iran.
The sources do not ascribe autonomous agency or personified powers to Adur Farnbag. Rather, late‑antique legends and secondary accounts attribute miracles and healings to the place of the fire — i.e., miracle narratives and reports of healing are associated with the cult site. Functionally, the fire served ritual, cultic, and symbolic roles within Zoroastrian worship and royal/communal identity as reported by the surveyed references.
Ab-Zohr
Ab-Zohr is the culminating rite of the Zoroastrian Yasna service: a formal offering to the waters (Aban/Apas) that creates the consecrated liquid parahaoma and functions to purify, strengthen, and atone for damage done to waters. It is a ritual action rather than an independent supernatural being.
Aban (Āb/Ābān)
Aban (Avestan apas; Middle Persian āb/ābān) is the collective, sacred principle of the waters in Zoroastrian cosmology — both the element water and its personified hypostases (the Apas/Ahuranis). Aban functions as a primordial, life-giving creation, a calendrical and liturgical focus (day-name, month-name, Abanagan feast), and a ritual object of veneration (ape zaothra, Aban Yasht) rather than a malign force to be expelled.
Aban Yasht
The Aban Yasht is a hymn from the Persian tradition that praises Anahita, a goddess associated with water, fertility, and wisdom. It consists of 132 stanzas and is part of the 21 Yashts collection. (Note: - Power tier should be "Primordial" or possibly "Cosmic", given that it's a hymn of great spiritual significance and associated with a goddess. - The article incorrectly states that Anahita is associa)
Abtin
Abtin (Persian: آبتین), attested also as Athwya, is a mythic ancestral figure in Iranian tradition described in Avestan and later epic literature as one of a small set of formative human-like figures involved in preparing the corporeal world and as the father of the epic hero-king Fereydun in the Shahnama.
Adur Burzen-Mihr
Adur Burzen-Mihr is a consecrated Atash Behram — one of the three Great Fires of late antique Sasanian Zoroastrianism — historically associated with the farmer social estate and with a cultic location in northeastern Iran. Medieval texts (e.g., the Bundahishn) and later summaries record it as a major pilgrimage fire with legendary associations of protection and miraculous efficacy; its documentary history after the early Islamic period is unclear.
Adur Gushnasp
Adur Gushnasp (Middle Persian: Ādur ī Gušnasp; New Persian: Āzargušnasp) is a pre-Islamic Zoroastrian Great Fire — one of the three highest grade sacred temple fires (Atash Behram) of Sasanian-era Iran. Housed at the temple-site historically called Shiz (modern Takht-e Soleymān, Adurbadagan), it functioned as a continuously tended cultic fire, a pilgrimage destination, and a focal point of royal patronage and warrior-class identity.
Aeshma
Aeshma is the Zoroastrian hypostasis of wrath — a fiendish being who personifies rage and functions as an ontological opponent to Ahuric principles and ritual discipline. In scripture and later tradition he distracts worship, foments violence and drunkenness, can be driven off by prayer or by divine agents such as Sraosha and Mithra, and will be overthrown or flee at the final renovation.
Afrasiab
Afrasiab is the legendary king and arch-enemy of Iran in Iranian epic and Zoroastrian-influenced tradition. Attested from the Avestan Fraŋrasyan through Middle Persian and the Shahnameh, he functions as a powerful Turanian ruler associated with sorcery, subterranean dwellings, and opposition to Iranian heroes and divine agencies.
Aghrirat
Aghrirat is a named Turanian noble and peacemaker in the Shahnameh and Iranian mythic tradition, presented as a son of Pashang and brother of Afrasiab and Garsivaz. He is notable for his kind and gentle character and for attempting, largely unsuccessfully, to end the hostilities between Iran and Turan.
Ahriman (Angra Mainyu)
Angra Mainyu (Middle Persian Ahriman) is the hypostasis or personification of destructive, deceitful, and disordering mentality in Zoroastrian tradition. In the earliest (Gathic) layer it is presented as a choiceful destructive mainyu opposed to the constructive Spenta Mainyu; in later Pahlavi exegesis it becomes a personified cosmic antagonist who nevertheless is described as ontologically deficient and non-divine.
Ahura
Ahura is an Avestan term that designates a class of divinities in the Indo‑Iranian and Zoroastrian tradition, marking the sacred ‘lords’ who are to be reverenced and opposed to the rejected class of daevas. In Zoroastrian scripture the label functions as both a technical category and an honorific applied to high divine figures such as Ahura Mazda, Mithra, and Apam Napat.
Ahura Mazda
Ahura Mazda is the principal deity of Zoroastrian tradition, invoked as the supreme source of goodness and wisdom who instructs Zoroaster and commands helper spirits (yazatas). Historically attested in Achaemenid royal inscriptions, Ahura Mazda occupies a central role in Zoroastrian liturgy (notably the Yasna) and in various Iranian religious formulations.
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- [1]Fire temple - New World Encyclopedia. 'These were the, Great Fires, or, Royal Fires, of Adur Burzen‑Mihr, Adur Farnbag, and Adur Gushnasp.'wiki
- [2]Fire Temple - World History Encyclopedia. As with Adur Gushnasp, legends of miracles and healings were associated with Adur Farnbag just as they were with Adur Burzen‑Mihr.wiki
- [3]AHURAMAZDA.COM - ZOROASTRIAN WEBSITE (Fire temple page). During the Parthian period 248 BCE to 224 CE the three great fires of Zoroastrianism, Adur Farnbag, Adur Gushnasp and Adur Burzen Mihr, were installed.other
- [4]Fire & Light in Zoroastrianism. Kinds of Fire. Energy of Creation - Heritage Institute. Provides the form 'Azarfarnbag' as a variant rendering and discusses 'Adur' as the Middle Persian element for a sacred fire.other
- [5]Takht-e Soleyman | ToIran, Tourism Platform (Takht-e Soleyman page). 'Adur Farnbag was the fire of persists and was located in Karyan in modern day Fars Province.' (phrase in source appears unclear/uncertain)other
- [6]Bibliographia Iranica - Sasanians and the Silk Road. Discusses the three Great Fires as part of a ritual and spatial geography constructed at key locations along routes such as the Silk Road.other
- [7]Wikipedia: Adur Gushnasp (mentions the triad of Great Fires including Adur Farnbag). Adur Farnbag is named alongside Adur Gushnasp and Adur Burzen‑Mihr as the three Great or Royal fires.wiki