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Cypress Of Kashmar
The Cypress of Kashmar was a cypress tree regarded as sacred to followers of Zoroastrianism. According to the Iranian epic ''Shahnameh'', the tree had grown from a branch Zoroaster had carried away from Paradise and which he planted in honor of King Vishtaspa's conversion to Zoroastrianism in Kashmarbalkh. The spreading branches of the tree are used as an allusion to the spread of Zoroaster's creed. On 10 December 861 AD, List of Abbasid caliphs, Abbasid Caliph al-Mutawakkil ordered the tree be felled and transported to his capital in Abbasid Samarra, Samarra where its wood would be used as beams for his new palace. The villagers who lived near the tree pleaded with the caliph and offered money for its protection, to no avail. But one day before the cypress trees arrived, the caliph was killed by his own slaves. The palace and its spiral minaret still stand today. See also * Adur Burzen-Mihr * Sarv-e Abarkuh, Zoroastrian Sarv * Torshiz * List of individual trees References < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kashmar
Kashmar () ( fa, کاشمر, also Romanized as ''Kāshmar''; formerly ''Keshmar'', '' Torshīz'' or ''Soltanabad'') is a city and the capital of Kashmar County, in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Kashmar is located near the river Shesh Taraz in the western part of the province, and south of the province's capital Mashhad, in Iran, from east to Bardaskan, west to Torbat-e Heydarieh, north to Nishapur, south to Gonabad. Until two centuries ago, this city was named Torshiz (). At the 2006 census, its population was 81,527, in 21,947 families. Historical legends Kashmar is a city with ancient history and many legendary stories Among the historical legends are about the Cypress of Kashmar. Cypress of Kashmar The Cypress of Kashmar is a mythical cypress tree of legendary beauty and gargantuan dimensions. It is said to have sprung from a branch brought by Zoroaster from Paradise and to have stood in today's Kashmar in northeastern Iran and to have been planted by Zoroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
