There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br>
Thirty years ago, the Russian historian L. S. Klejn proposed that the legendary Chechen and Ingush character Pira or Pirow was borrowed during the Middle Ages by the local population from the Russian mythology, through a contingent of Eastern Slavs deported there by the caliph Mervan II. Thus, Pira...
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| description | Thirty years ago, the Russian historian L. S. Klejn proposed that the legendary Chechen and Ingush character Pira or Pirow was borrowed during the Middle Ages by the local population from the Russian mythology, through a contingent of Eastern Slavs deported there by the caliph Mervan II. Thus, Pira or Pirow would be the old Slavic god Perun. I will propose here an alternative source to this legendary figure, an Iranian source. A hero named Piran indeed appears in the Shahnameh, Ferdowsi’s epic dating from the tenth century. That hero, like Pira or Pirow, is able, through an intermediary, to make rain and lightning. In fact, the name Piran seems to have an etymology close to that of the god Perun. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e367e604b904ed784b9805e32ec27142022-12-22T03:42:39ZdeuZRC SAZU, Založba ZRCStudia Mythologica Slavica1408-62711581-128X2012-10-011517918410.3986/sms.v15i1.15821258There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br>Patrice Lajoye0MRSH Université de Caen, FR-14032 Caen cédex, FranceThirty years ago, the Russian historian L. S. Klejn proposed that the legendary Chechen and Ingush character Pira or Pirow was borrowed during the Middle Ages by the local population from the Russian mythology, through a contingent of Eastern Slavs deported there by the caliph Mervan II. Thus, Pira or Pirow would be the old Slavic god Perun. I will propose here an alternative source to this legendary figure, an Iranian source. A hero named Piran indeed appears in the Shahnameh, Ferdowsi’s epic dating from the tenth century. That hero, like Pira or Pirow, is able, through an intermediary, to make rain and lightning. In fact, the name Piran seems to have an etymology close to that of the god Perun.https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/sms/article/view/1582caucasusingushperunpiranshahnamehchechens |
| spellingShingle | Patrice Lajoye There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br> Studia Mythologica Slavica caucasus ingush perun piran shahnameh chechens |
| title | There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br> |
| title_full | There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br> |
| title_fullStr | There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br> |
| title_full_unstemmed | There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br> |
| title_short | There is no »Perun in the Caucasus«... But Maybe an Ancient Iranian Thunder Demon<br>Na Kavkaze »Peruna net« ... est' tam, vozmožno, staryj iranskij demon</br> |
| title_sort | there is no perun in the caucasus but maybe an ancient iranian thunder demon br na kavkaze peruna net est tam vozmozno staryj iranskij demon br |
| topic | caucasus ingush perun piran shahnameh chechens |
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