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You are Welcome to West Asia! (🕌🐪)

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The Story of Tamr�usiyeh 🐲🪽

Tamr�usiyeh, while deep in thought, saw a snake as white as milk with two wings on its sides. . . and a human face . . . An hour passed and he saw another snake similar to the first one but black as the wings of a crow . . ..

Tamr�usiyeh said: “The black snake should not be allowed to kill the white snake.” So hurriedly he awoke the white snake and when the white snake saw the black one they began to battle . . ..

Tamr�usiyeh rushed [into the fracas], took a large rock and hit the black snake on the head and killed it . . . the large snake . . . then disappeared. [Later] two snakes appeared and greeted Tamr�usiyeh and paid homage to him.

They said, “The white snake was our offspring and God Almighty made you victorious. You aided our son and killed that demon.”

Tamr�usiyeh retorted, “What kind of creatures are you and which [tribe] do you come from?”

The snakes answered, “We belong to the angels [parı¯ya¯n] but the black snake was a demon [dı¯v] and they live behind the mountains and raise their heads above it . . ..These are not dragons but demons who make themselves look like dragons."51

This account seems to access a very deep substratum in that it confirms the existence of angelic and celestial dragons vis-a`-vis demonic and ecliptic dragons. It also shows the inherent ambivalence of the great dragon beast, its white versus black attributes (or light against darkness), and its delivering versus devouring aspects.

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Jannati Azdah (Heavenly Dragon) 🐲

In Islamic lore, the serpent is described as the most beautiful and strongest of animals:

The serpent was shaped like a camel and like the camel, could stand erect.

She had a multi-coloured tail, red, yellow, green, white, black, a mane of pearl, hair of topaz, eyes like the planets Venus and Jupiter, and an aroma like musk blended with ambergris.

Her dwelling was in the aqueous Paradise, and her pond was on the shore of the River Cawthar.

Her food was saffron, and she drank from that river; and her speech was an exaltation of God, the Lord of the Universe.

God had created her two thousand years before he created Adam, and she had told Adam and Eve about every tree in Paradise.

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The Miracle of Azdahā (Serpent/Dragon) 🐉

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Tales of Shahnameh