Dios mithra anahita hemati biography

Iranian goddess

This article is about the goddess. For other purposes, see Anahita (disambiguation). For the female given name, see Anahita (given name).

Dios mithra anahita hemati biography

For the female given name derived from Anahita, see Anaïs (given name).

"Nahid" redirects here. For other uses, see Nahid (disambiguation).

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 Anāhitā), 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.

There is also a temple named Anahita in Iran. Aredvi Sura Anahita is Ardwisur Anahid (اردویسور آناهید) in Middle and Modern Persian, and Anahit in Armenian.^[1] 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