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 Here is a tale pieced together from diverse Avestic texts, a little Pahlavi seasoning, and items from the Shah-namah. It presents a basic moralizing theme against perhaps a pre-Zoroastrian backdrop of distress overcome by derring-do, with healing and heroism versus hooliganism — all quite Zoroastrian, really! Human nature having little changed, such high ethical values and moral actions apply to this day. Starring in it are the anti-hero explorer Paurva, the cult goddess Ardvi Sura Anahita (a.k.a. Aban), and the hero physician Thraitaona (a.k.a. Shah Faridun) with his adversary Azi-Dahaka (a.k.a. Zohhak). Others are subsidiary to the plot. To set its......