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c. 500 BCE – 1600 CEattested
Iranian plateau
- Iranian
The demons of Iranian tradition, descendants of the old gods (daevas) who chose the wrong side. The Shahnameh is full of heroes wrestling them, and the word gave English 'devil' by a long route.
Known for
- the old gods demonised
- wrestled by heroes
- the road to 'devil'
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.