stories from shahnameh


Kaveh Ahangar


Kaveh the Blacksmith (Persian: کاوه آهنگر – Kāve Āhangar listen),[1][2] is a 5000-year-old figure in Iranian mythology who leads a popular uprising against a ruthless foreign ruler, Zahāk. His story is narrated in the Shahnameh, the national epic of Iran (Persia), by the 10th-century Persian poet Ferdowsi. Kāveh was, according to ancient legends, a blacksmith who launched a national uprising against the ...
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