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n. (context Iranian mythology English) the name of an Iranian goddess, associated with fertility, healing and wisdom.
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Anahita is the Old Persian form of the name of an Iranian goddess and appears in complete and earlier form as (); the Avestan language name of an Indo-Iranian cosmological figure venerated as the divinity of 'the Waters' ( Aban) and hence associated with fertility, healing and wisdom. Aredvi Sura Anahita is Ardwisur Anahid or Nahid in Middle- and Modern Persian, Anahit or Anaheed in Armenian. An iconic shrine cult of Aredvi Sura Anahita, was – together with other shrine cults – "introduced apparently in the 4th century BCE and lasted until it was suppressed in the wake of an iconoclastic movement under the Sassanids."
The Greek and Roman historians of classical antiquity refer to her either as Anaïtis or identified her with one of the divinities from their own pantheons. 270 Anahita, a silicaceous S-type asteroid is named after her.
Anahita is a genus of wandering spider in the family Ctenidae.
Anahita may refers to:
- A female given name
Usage examples of "anahita".
Probably one of those endless hymns to the fertility of Anahita, whom the Greeks call Aphrodite.
Ishtar, named for a goddess not unlike Anahita or Aphrodite except that she is a man as well as a woman.
I have never understood the veneration that so many benighted races have for Anahita or Cybele or Artemis or whatever name the voracious mother-goddess happens to bear.
I noted that the statue of Anahita was heavily burdened with chains and odd devices.
Atossa detached a flower from the garland about her neck and threw it at the image of Anahita in the corner.
Jamshed Joshi," Anahita Sufyan carolled, doing her imitation of an upper--class English accent.
Mishal and Anahita Sufyan, who still unaccountably treated him like a kind of soul-mate, in spite of all his attempts to dissuade them, were beings who plainly admired such creatures as moonlighters, shoplifters, flichers: scam artists in general.