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== 参考文献 ==
* Wikipedia：[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%9E フマ]（最終閲覧日：22-03-21）
[[File:Homa.JPG|thumb|alt=Homa Persepolis Iran|[[Griffin]]-like [[Capital (architecture)|column capital]] statuary, from about 500 BC [[Persepolis]], [[Iran]]. In local popular interpretation, the figures on these columns are perceived as representations of the Huma bird.<ref name="BM" />]]
The '''Huma''' ({{lang-fa|هما}}, pronounced ''Homā'', [[Avestan language|Avestan]]: ''Homāio''), also '''Homa''', is a mythical bird of [[Persian mythology|Iranian legends and fables]],<ref>{{Citation
|author=MacKenzie, D. N.
|title=A concise Pahlavi Dictionary|year=2005
|publisher=Routledge Curzon|location=London & New York
|isbn=0-19-713559-5
}}</ref><ref>{{Citation
|author=Mo'in, M.|author-link=Mohammad Moin
|title=A Persian Dictionary. Six Volumes|year=1992|publisher=Amir Kabir Publications
|location=Tehran|isbn=1-56859-031-8}}</ref>
and continuing as a common motif in [[Sufi poetry|Sufi]] and [[Diwan (poetry)|Diwan]] poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth.
There are numerous [[Folk etymology|folk interpretations]] of the name, among them that of the Sufi teacher [[Inayat Khan]], who supposed that "in the word ''Huma'', ''hu'' represents spirit, and the word ''mah'' originates from the Arabic 'Maʼa' {{lang|ar|ماء}} which means water."<ref name="Mysticism of Music">{{citation|chapter-url=http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/II/II_8.htm|title=The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word|chapter=Abstract Sound|last=Khan|first=Inayat|year=1923|publisher=wahiduddin.net}}.</ref>
==Myths and legends==
[[File:Emblem of Uzbekistan.svg|thumb|left|200px|Huma bird in the [[Emblem of Uzbekistan]]]]
The Huma bird is said to never come to rest, living its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth, and never alighting on the ground (in some legends it is said to have no legs).<ref name="Nile">{{citation|last=Nile|first=Green|title=Ostrich Eggs and Peacock Feathers: Sacred Objects as Cultural Exchange between Christianity and Islam|journal=Al Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean|volume=18|issue=1|year=<!--March-->2006|pages=27–78|doi=10.1080/09503110500222328}}.</ref>
[[File:Nadir Divan-begi Madrasa.jpg|thumb|Mosaic of the mythical Huma bird on the portal of Nadir Divan-Begi Madrasa in [[Bukhara]], [[Uzbekistan]]]]
In several variations of the Huma myths, the bird is said to be [[Phoenix (mythology)|phoenix]]-like, consuming itself in fire every few hundred years, only to rise anew from the ashes. The Huma bird is said to have both the male and female natures in one body (reminiscent of the Chinese [[Fenghuang]]), each nature having one wing and one leg. Huma is considered to be compassionate, and a 'bird of fortune'<ref name="divan"/> since its shadow (or touch) is said to be auspicious.
In Sufi tradition, catching the Huma is beyond even the wildest imagination, but catching a glimpse of it or even a shadow of it is sure to make one happy for the rest of his/her life. It is also believed that Huma cannot be caught alive, and the person killing a Huma will die in forty days.<ref name="divan"/>
In [[Ottoman poetry]], the creature is often referred to as a '[[Bird-of-paradise|bird of paradise]]';<ref name="divan">{{Citation |url=http://turkoloji.cu.edu.tr/ESKI%20TURK%20%20EDEBIYATI/batislam.pdf |author=H. Dilek Batîslam |title=Mythological Birds of the Classical Ottoman Poetry: Huma, Anka and Simurg. |publisher=Türk Kültürü İncelemeleri Dergisi,İstanbul 2002, 185–208 |access-date= 3 August 2009 |language=tr}}</ref><ref>''cf''. {{citation|last=Andrews|first=Walter|last2=Kalpakli|first2=Mehmet|title=The Age of Beloveds|year=2005|publisher=Duke University Press|pages=341–342}}.</ref> early European descriptions of the [[Paradisaeidae]] species portrayed the birds as having no wings or legs, and the birds were assumed to stay aloft their entire lives.
In [[Attar of Nishapur]]'s allegorical masterpiece ''[[The Conference of the Birds]]'', an eminent example of Sufi works in [[Persian literature]], the Huma bird is portrayed as a pupil that refuses to undertake a journey because such an undertaking would compromise the privilege of bestowing kingship on those whom it flew over. In Iranian literature, this kingship-bestowing function of the Huma bird is identified with pre-Islamic monarchs, and stands vis-a-vis ravens, which is a metaphor for Arabs.<ref>{{citation|last=Pourshariati|first=Parvaneh|title=Local Historiography in Early Medieval Iran and the Tārīkh-i Bayhaq|journal=Iranian Studies|volume=33|issue=1/2|year=<!--Winter-Spring-->2000|pages=133–164|doi=10.1080/00210860008701979}}, p. 151.</ref> The legend appears in non-Sufi art as well.<ref>''cf''. <!-- "Balwant Singh on A Terrace Overlooking a River"-->{{citation|last=Goswamy|first=B. N.|title=Nainsukh of Guler: A Great Indian Painter from a Small Hill-State|journal=Artibus Asiae|series=Supplementum|volume=41|year=1997|pages=5–304}}, p. 118.</ref>
The kingship-bestowing function of the Huma bird reappear in Indian stories of the [[Mughal empire|Mughal era]], in which the shadow (or the alighting) of the Huma bird on a person's head or shoulder were said to bestow (or foretell) kingship. Accordingly, the feathers decorating the turbans of kings were said to be plumage of the Huma bird.<ref name="schimmel">{{citation|last=Schimmel|first=Annemarie|last2=Attwood|first2=Corinne|
last3=Waghmar|first3=Burzine|title=The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and Culture|publisher=Reaktion|year=2004|page=30}}.</ref>
Sufi teacher [[Inayat Khan]] gives the bestowed-kingship legend a spiritual dimension: "Its true meaning is that when a person's thoughts so evolve that they break all limitation, then he becomes as a king. It is the limitation of language that it can only describe the Most High as something like a king."<ref name="Mysticism of Music">{{citation|chapter-url=http://wahiduddin.net/mv2/II/II_8.htm|title=The Mysticism of Music, Sound and Word|chapter=Abstract Sound|last=Khan|first=Inayat|year=1923|publisher=wahiduddin.net}}.</ref>
The Huma bird symbolizes unreachable highness in [[Turkish folk literature]].<ref name="hbv">{{Citation |url=http://www.hbvdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/TKHBVD/article/view/572/562 |author=Erdoğan Altınkaynak |title=Yer Altı Diyarının Kartalı |publisher=Hacı Bektaş Veli Araştırma Dergisi, 26, 135 – 163 (2003) |access-date=8 March 2014 |language=tr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308163058/http://www.hbvdergisi.gazi.edu.tr/index.php/TKHBVD/article/view/572/562 |archive-date=8 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Some references to the creature also appear in [[Sindhi literature]], where – as in the [[Diwan (poetry)|diwan]] tradition – the creature is portrayed as bringing great fortune. In the ''[[Zafarnama (letter)|Zafarnama]]'' of [[Guru Gobind Singh]], a letter addressed to [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] Emperor [[Aurangzeb]] refers to the Huma bird as a "mighty and auspicious bird".
==Legacy==
[[File:Homa Persepolis Iran.JPG|thumbnail|alt=Homa Persepolis Iran|[[Griffin]]-like capital statuary, from about 500 BC [[Persepolis]], [[Iran]]. The figures on these columns are popularly considered to be representations of the Huma bird.<ref name="BM" />]]
* A [[British Museum]] catalog captions a photograph of the [[griffin]]-like capitals at [[Persepolis]] with "Column capital in the form of griffins (locally known as 'homa<!-- caution: homa, not huma--> birds')".<ref name="BM">{{citation|editor-last=Curtis|editor-first=John|editor2-last=Tallis|editor2-first=Nigel|title=Forgotten Empire, the World of Ancient Persia|location=London|publisher=British Museum Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-7141-1157-5}}</ref>
* The Persian language acronym for "[[Iran Air|Iran National Airline]]" is <small>HOMA</small> and the [[:Image:Iran Air full logo.svg|airline's emblem]] has a stylized rendering of a Huma bird.
* The [[Emblem of Uzbekistan]] represents the Huma bird.
* Herman Melville briefly alludes to the bird in ''[[Moby-Dick]].'' At the beginning of the chapter entitled "The Tail", the narrator speaks of "the bird that never alights."
* It provides the title of ''[[Bird's Shadow]]'', a collection of short stories by [[Ivan Bunin]].
* It is also referred to in the movie ''[[Days of Being Wild]]'' by [[Wong Kar-wai]] and the play "[[Orpheus Descending]]" by [[Tennessee Williams]].{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}
* The literature series ''[[Dragonlance]]'' named Krynn's greatest hero, Huma Dragonbane, after the Huma bird.
* the asteroid [[3988 Huma]] discovered by [[Eleanor F. Helin]] named after the Huma bird. The asteroid's name was suggested by the ''[[Space Generation Advisory Council|SGAC]] Name An Asteroid Campaign''<ref name="MPC-Huma">{{cite web |title = 3988 Huma (1986 LA) |work = Minor Planet Center |url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=3988 |access-date = 27 September 2016}}</ref>
==See also==
*[[Fenghuang]]
*[[Griffin]]
*[[Martlet]]
*[[Triple-headed eagle]]
*[[Turul]]
*[[List of phoenixes in popular culture]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
* {{EI3|last=Saccone|first=Carlo|title=Humā|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/huma-COM_30551?s.num=22&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-3&s.start=20&s.q=Iranian|year=2018}}
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