シャーバーズ（鳥）

シャーバーズ（Shahbaz'(شَهباز or شاه‌باز)）は、ペルシア神話に登場する伝説の鳥の名前である 。ワシに似た体つきで、タカやハヤブサより大きく、広大なイランのザグロス山脈、アルボルズ山脈、コーカサス山脈のどこかに生息していたとされる。古代ペルシア神話では、シャーバーズはイラン民族を助け、ファラヴァハルを大イランに導いた神とされている。

History

The word Shahbaz literally translates to "royal falcon". It was the practice at this time for the Shah (English: king) to keep a royal falcon or bird of prey. This bird symbol represented both strength and aggressiveness. The ancient Egyptian deity of Horus is speculated to have been the archetype for the Standard of Cyrus the Great.テンプレート:By whom

The British explorer Richard F. Burton considered the symbol to refer to the goshawk species, Accipiter gentilis. Shahbaz could have alternatively referred to another common bird over the skies of the Persian plateau, the eastern imperial eagle, though this observation has never been claimed by historians as merited.

During the Achaemenian rule, the Persian imperial flag was hence rectangular in shape, divided kite-like into four equal triangles alternating between two colours. The standard, a ceramic plaque with the fabled bird-like creature, speculated to be Shahbaz (Derafsh-e Shahbaz-e-Talayi) carved out, was found following the excavations of Persepolis in the early 20th century. The belief is that this was the official symbol of the Iranian empire under Cyrus the Great and his heirs.テンプレート:Citation needed

関連項目

• チャムローシュ
• フマ
• シームルグ

参考文献

• Wikipedia：Shahbaz (bird)