Aradvi Sura Anahita
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Aradvi Sura Anahita is the Avestan name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of "the Waters" and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom. An iconic shrine sects of Aredvi Sura Anahita was, together with other shrine sects, "introduced apparently in the 4th century BCE and lasted until it was suppressed in the wake of an iconoclastic movement under the Sasanids."
When
- First attested
- 400 BCE
- Attested period
- -400 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Shrine sects introduced c. 4th century BCE, suppressed under the Sasanids.
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Source passages
“Anahita is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as Aradvi Sura Anahita (Arədvī Sūrā Anāhita), the Avestan name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of "the Waters" (Aban) and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom”
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