The Symbols of the Goddess of Waters in Iran's Culture

Abstract

Religious insight of primitive human, embodied the higher powers of earth and sky in the female origin of the universe which afterwards this origin became the great basis of primary mother, people circled around her and worshiped her. Myth is a kind of interpretation of universe which comes with the form of stories about gods, angles and Amshaspandan, a holy fate which really has happened and now in a form of imagination and symbol, talks about how things came into existence or annihilated. For ancient human myths are like holy books, teach him morals and practicable commandments. Anahita was an ancient Iranian goddess, which existed before Zoroaster and was being worshiped. She became a powerful angle after rising of Zoroaster and ceremonies and benedictions were held for her. Here we introduce and consider symbols related to Anahita in Iran.