Illustration of Kay Bahman in the Tekyeh Moaven al-molk in Kermanshah
Kay Bahman or Wahman (from Middle Persian: Wahman "good mind") is a mythological figure of Greater Iranian legend and lore. The stock epithet Kai identifies Bahman as one of the Kayanian kings of Iranian oral tradition.
The 3rd-6th century Sassanians claimed to descend from Bahman and the Kayanids. This myth was combined with another legend in which the Sassanians were imagined to have descended from the Achaemenids, and in the post-Sassanid period Bahman came to equated with both Artaxerxes I and Cyrus the Great.[1]
KayBahman or Wahman (from Middle Persian: Wahman "good mind") is a mythological figure of Greater Iranian legend and lore. The stock epithet Kai identifies...
the son of KayBahman. Most accounts agree that Dara's mother was Humay Chehrzad, who had married her father, KayBahman. After KayBahman's death, Humay...
Shahnameh ("Book of Kings"). He was son of Rostam and at last killed by KayBahman. The book Faramarz-nama, written about a hundred years after Shahnameh...
translation of the Shahnameh uses the term "crystal globe". Davazdah Rokh KayBahman Cyrus the Great ""Bayasanghori Shâhnâmeh" (Prince Bayasanghor's Book of...
32 years. She was daughter and perhaps also wife (sources vary) of KayBahman. Bahman becomes ill when Humay is 6 months pregnant, and upon realizing that...
Rostan and Esfandiyar, when KayBahman, son of Esfandiyar, invaded Sakastan to revenge death of his father. Ironically, while Bahman was shah of Iran centuries...
earlier works, is entirely in verse. Kay Kawād Kay Kāvus Kay Khosrow Kay Lohrasp Vishtaspa KayBahman Humay Chehrzad Kay Darab Dara II Shapira, Dan D.Y. (2010)...
compose the Persian epic poem of Bahman-nama, an Iranian mythological story about the constant battles between KayBahman and Rostam's family. This implies...
hero in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh. He was son of Rostam and at last killed by KayBahman. The book Faramarz-nama, written about a hundred years after Shahnameh...
temple, which was said to be founded by the mythological Kayanian king KayBahman, from whom the Sasanians claimed their descent. Khosrow was the youngest...
therefore took place between these two events." 2016 Cyrus the Great Revolt KayBahman List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources List of...
cycle texts Goshtasp is succeeded by Esfandiar's son, Bahman (< MP Wahman). The identification of Bahman with 'Ardashir' (see above) reappears in the Sistan...
was a descendant of the mythological Kayanian rulers Dara II, Dara I, KayBahman, Esfandiyar, and Vishtaspa. The claim of Sasan belonging to the Kayanian...
Tuzag) was founded by the Kayanid queen Humay Chehrzad, a daughter of king KayBahman, who is identified with the fifth Achaemenid monarch Artaxerxes I (r. 465–424 BC)...
Manuchehr Nowzar Zaav Garshasp Kayanian Kay Kawād Kay Kāvus Kay Khosrow Kay Lohrasp Goshtasb KayBahman Humay Chehrzad Kay Darab Dara II Male characters Jamasp...
Fly is a 2004 Kurdish war drama film written, directed and co-produced by Bahman Ghobadi. The film stars Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Faysal...
1453-1467 : Ka'us II 1467-1499 : Jahangir I 1499-1507 : Bisutun II 1507-1550 : Bahman of Tabaristan 1550-1576 : Kayumarth IV 1582-1586 : Sultan Aziz 1586-1593/1594 :...
their religion in peace, have also kept the Shahnameh traditions alive. Dr. Bahman Sohrabji Surti, assisted by Marzban Giara, published between 1986 and 1988...
in the early adoption of Persian epic names by the Seljuk rulers (Qubād, Kay Khusraw and so on) and in the use of Persian as a literary language (Turkmen...
after pulling up extremely lame on the Sea Forest cross-country course Bahman Golbarnezhad (48), Iran – Cyclist – 2016, Rio de Janeiro – cardiac arrest...
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