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Persian mythology developed in what is now Iran after about 1500 B.C. About a thousand years later, a religion known as Zoroastrianism emerged in the region. It held on to many of the earlier beliefs but added new themes, deities,god or goddess and myths. The result was a mythology based on a dualisticconsisting of two equal and opposing forces vision: a cosmiclarge or universal in scale; having to do with the universe conflict between good and evil.

Background and Sources. The roots of Persian mythology lie in the steppesvast expanse of treeless grassland of southern Russia and Central Asia. Between 1500 and 1000 B.C., Indo-European peoples migrated south from the...