ДЄccording to the post-Avestan texts, following the death of Jam Д« XЕЎД“d ( Jamshid), DahДЃg gained kingly rule. Together they attack the hero Yima ( Jamshid) and cut him in half with a saw, but are then beaten back by the yazata ДЂtar, the divine spirit of fire. In one Avestan text, AЕѕi DahДЃka has a brother named Spitiyura. Being representatives of the Good, they refused. AЕѕi DahДЃka asked these two yazatas for power to depopulate the world. Based on the similarity between BaОІri and Old Persian BДЃbiru ( Babylon), later Zoroastrians localized AЕѕi DahДЃka in Mesopotamia, though the identification is open to doubt. In the Avesta, AЕѕi DahДЃka is said to have lived in the inaccessible fortress of Kuuirinta in the land of BaОІri, where he worshipped the yazatas ArЙ™dvД« SЕ«rДЃ ( AnДЃhitДЃ), divinity of the rivers, and Vayu, divinity of the storm-wind. His mother is Wadag (or ЕЊdag), herself described as a great sinner, who committed incest with her son. The name DahДЃg (DahДЃka) is punningly interpreted as meaning 'having ten ( dah) sins'. In a post-Avestan Zoroastrian text, the DД“nkard, AЕѕi DahДЃka is possessed of all possible sins and evil counsels, the opposite of the good king Jam (or Jamshid). ДЄЕѕi DahДЃka appears in several of the Avestan myths and is mentioned parenthetically in many more places in Zoroastrian literature. In other respects AЕѕi DahДЃka has human qualities, and is never a mere animal. He is described as a monster with three mouths, six eyes, and three heads, cunning, strong, and demonic. The Azhdarchid group of pterosaurs are named from a Persian word for ' dragon' that ultimately comes from AЕѕi DahДЃka.ДЄЕѕi DahДЃka (DahДЃg) in Zoroastrian literature ДЄЕѕi DahДЃka is the most significant and long-lasting of the aЕѕis of the Avesta, the earliest religious texts of Zoroastrianism. Дespite the negative aspect of AЕѕi DahДЃka in mythology, dragons have been used on some banners of war throughout the history of Iranian peoples. The name also migrated to Eastern Europe, assumed the form ' azhdaja' and the meaning 'dragon', 'dragoness' or 'water snake' in Balkanic and Slavic languages. The Avestan term AЕѕi DahДЃka and the Middle Persian azdahДЃg are the source of the Middle Persian Manichaean demon of greed Az, Old Armenian mythological figure AЕѕdahak, Modern Persian ' aЕѕdehГў/ aЕѕdahГў', Tajik Persian ' azhdahГў', Urdu ' azhdahДЃ' (Ш§ЪШЇЩ‡Ш§), as well as the Kurdish ejdГ®ha (Ш¦Ы•ЪШЇЫЊЩ‡Ш§) which usually mean 'dragon'.

In Persian mythology, DahДЃka is treated as a proper noun, and is the source of the бёЊaбёҐбёҐДЃk (ZahhДЃk) of the ShДЃhnДЃme. Khotanese daha), 'huge' or 'foreign' (cf. Sanskrit dahana), 'man' or 'manlike' (cf. Among the meanings suggested are 'stinging' (source uncertain), 'burning' (cf. The original meaning of dahДЃka is uncertain. 7 The AЕѕi/Ahi in Indo-Iranian traditionДЄЕѕi (nominative aЕѕiЕЎ) is the Avestan word for 'serpent' or 'dragon.' It is cognate to the Vedic Sanskrit word ahi, 'snake,' and without a sinister implication.2 AЕѕi DahДЃka (DahДЃg) in Zoroastrian literature.

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