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Aži Dahāka Museum Card
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Where Dragons Dwell
Series Atlas Archive
Aži Dahāka
Persian / Middle Eastern
Region
Middle East & Persia
Era
Avestan roots to later Persian epic tradition
Collection note
WDD-PER-001
Some dragon forms emerge where myth speaks in deserts, kings, and cosmic struggle. In the Avesta the three-headed Aži Dahāka is overcome by the hero Thraētaona; in the Shahnameh it becomes the serpent-shouldered tyrant Zahhāk, bound beneath Mount Damāvand - primordial chaos that heroes and empires must overcome.
Role
Chaos-dragon opposed by heroes, rulers, and divine order
Catalog no.
WDD-PER-001
Series
Atlas Archive
Some dragon forms emerge where myth speaks in stars, deserts, kings, and cosmic struggle.
Where Dragons Dwell
Series Atlas Archive
Aži Dahāka
Persian / Middle Eastern
Region
Middle East & Persia
Era
Avestan roots to later Persian epic tradition
Collection note
WDD-PER-001
Some dragon forms emerge where myth speaks in deserts, kings, and cosmic struggle. In the Avesta the three-headed Aži Dahāka is overcome by the hero Thraētaona; in the Shahnameh it becomes the serpent-shouldered tyrant Zahhāk, bound beneath Mount Damāvand - primordial chaos that heroes and empires must overcome.
Role
Chaos-dragon opposed by heroes, rulers, and divine order
Catalog no.
WDD-PER-001
Series
Atlas Archive
Some dragon forms emerge where myth speaks in stars, deserts, kings, and cosmic struggle.