Verethragna
c. 600 BCE – 650 CEattested
the Iranian plateau
- Iranian
God of victory, who appears in ten different bodies: a wind, a bull, a horse, a camel, a boar, a youth, a bird, a ram, a goat and an armed man. Victory here is a thing that keeps changing shape.
Known for
- ten incarnations
- victory as smashing resistance
- the falcon form
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.