Ran across an 1897 book published in London entitled “The Diamond Fairy Book” with a story by “the Persian”…

It is common to see Iranian stories with life-lessons in 19th or early 20th century Western literature… that is not the case in 21st century given Mainstream Globalists have thrown Iran under a mask—a foreign regime called Islamic Republic… so that anything Iranian (the Avestan-Aryan branch of Indo-European peoples) would be eradicated… this is further seen as how Mainstream Media refers to the historical Persian Gulf as FAKE GEOGRAPHY “Arabian Gulf”…or just “the Gulf” as if it’s the only gulf in the world… cultural ancestry connections are mutually incompatible to globalism…

…the same Globalists who several decades ago supported the rise of Islamic mullahs in Iran through the unholy alliance of the Red-Black (Communism/Lefitst-Islamist) are playing the same game in America…since 1979, Iranians have faced the destruction and rewriting of their history and ancestral memories by Islamists and their Western Leftist supporters (Mainstream) (see my 2009 article on history books K-12 under Islamic Republic regime linked here http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_iran0727_09_15.asp)… so-called Mainstream scholars and experts on West Asia (Fake Geography "Middle East") and Iran affairs are often Islamocentric... this is now becoming a shared experience between Iranians and Americans with recent reports https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/15/u-va-students-faculty-deeply-offended-by-university-president-quoting-thomas-jefferson-the-schools-founder/?utm_term=.de1b925121e7

…I digress…

...back to the 1897 story… Iranian elements in “The prince and the lions” story are abound such as the protagonist prince who must prove his worth of kingship by overcoming a test of wits/skills, a Vizier (Iranian kings argued their best treasure was a capable and trustworthy advisor), events in threes, music, traveling and meeting others who are hospitable, falling in love with a princess, having to earn a union with the princess, facing one’s greatest fear or weakness (the Iranian concept of “slaying the dragon” as adopted by others politically, religiously, and philosophically), proving one’s courage in line with deeds of heroic ancestors, and fulfilling one’s destiny in pursuit of happiness…

…this 1897 Iranian-themed story also ended with an Iranian proverb—“Never run from the lion”…

[pic Gutenberg: “The Diamond Fairy Book” (1897) … for educational purposes only]

“The Persians, it would appear, like the Phœnicians, made an analysis of human speech, which shows it to be composed of comparatively few fundamental sounds, and adopted a relatively simple cuneiform character to represent each one of these sounds. In this script the inscriptions of the Persian kings—in particular of Darius and his immediate successors—were written. There was another modification made by the Persians, as witnessed by these inscriptions, which, if not so important, had considerable practical value; namely, the use of a uniform oblique line to separate different words in an inscription. To the modern reader it seems strange that the ancient nations, with the exception of the Persians, should have had the uniform custom of writing their letters or syllabic characters in an unbroken series with no space or sign to indicate the division into words. This was as true of the ancient Greek inscriptions as of those of Egypt and Mesopotamia. It was left to the Persians to discover the practical value or convenience of indicating the separation between words. That such a custom came into vogue in Persia was perhaps due to the fact that the people there were widely educated, it being customary to teach all children of the better classes to read, as was probably never the case with any other of the oriental nations.  We have already seen how valuable this custom of separating the words in their inscriptions has been to the modern investigator of the cuneiform writing. But for the fact of the Persian alphabet and the added fact of division of sentences into words in writing, the cuneiform script, on which the modern science of Assyriology is founded, might much longer have defied attempts to decipher it.”

~ excerpt from 25-volume “The Historian’s History of the World” (1907) by H. S. Williams…

…The genius of Iranians since the Age of Antiquity is in being modernists without losing their national identity… part of being a modernist requires cultural adaptability and flexibility…if Iranians adopted something foreign, they had a knack for making the best modifications to suit their Iranian style… for example, and with all due respect to my southern European ancestry, here is a pic of Persian version of spaghetti… http://fae-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Macaroni-2.jpg ...

Beyond yummy!

…also despite Persians being Asiatic (Oriental) Iranians, other Iranian tribes lived in Europe such as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alans, etc…so Iranians just like their distant cousins the Greeks are Asiatic AND European…

[pic iranicaonline: Note the “word divider” symbol at the bottom of the image which Williams claimed was an Iranian novelty in the early development of writing…for educational purposes only]

By late 19^th century, historians and linguists were referring to ancient Akkadian spoken in what is now northern Iraq as a Turanian language… nowadays, the concept of Turanian has been omitted form Mainstream information and Akkadian is listed as a Semitic language… although this posting is not about the classification of ancient Akkadian language, let’s look at the concept of Turanian…

According to J. M. Evans in a 2012 book on ancient Sumerians, “the term Turanian is derived from the Iranian epic traditions, in which the peoples of Turan are the enemies of Iran” living beyond Iran… so that by 20^th century, any language that awaited classification was listed under Turanian…

…of course, those of Iranian heritage KNOW that Turanians are Iranians and are very familiar with the legends of Iran versus Turan…these “Iranian versus Turanian” legends and epics are still very much part of Iranian cultural fabric…it’s not until late Antiquity-early Medieval era when Turanian-Iranians mixed with Eurasian Turks (a Mongolian people) causing some Turanian-Iranians to become Turkish speakers that the classification of Turanians also extended to now mixed peoples of Turanian/Iranian-Turkish heritage… so originally and in ancient times, Turanian did not mean Turkish tribes—rather Eastern Iranians (as opposed to the famous Persians, who are Western Iranians)…

O. M. Davidson discussed this in a 1985 publication in honor of Iranologist Prof. Mary Boyce by stating that Turanians in Iranian ancient records “are thoroughly Iranian, but they are distinct in both form and content from the institutions represented as orthodox Iranian”…that is, compared to Iranians (Western Iranic), the Turanians (Eastern Iranic) are seen as barbarous, predatory, nomadic, and cultic…in Iranian memories, their natural enemies—the Turks and the Chinese—were at times allies with Turanians…

…we can see this conflict between Western Iranians (“orthodox” Iranians) and Eastern Iranians (“heterodox/liberal” Iranians) in the displacement of Parthians (Eastern Iranic) by Sasanians (Western Iranic) in that the Sasanian Persians viewed Parthians (descendants of Scytho-Medes) as not Iranian enough to rule an Iranian empire!!!  Let’s not forget that earlier in Iranian history, we have Cyrus the Great (king of Western Iranic Persians) having reportedly been killed in battle by Tomyris (queen of Eastern Iranic Scytho-Massagetaens)…

Now ancient Assyrians called the neighboring Scythians (Eastern Iranic), “Ashkuza” (Ashkenaz)… Eastern Iranian Scythians called Western Iranian Persians, “Khazar”… therefore, the names Ashkenazi/Khazari referred to various Iranian groups living around the Caspian Sea / Baltic Sea… by the Middle Ages, the Ashkenazi/Khazari will mix with Salvic Indo-Europeans, Turkic Mongolians, and Jewish Semites to form the Khazaria Kingdom/Empire in the Middle Ages whose ruling class chose to convert to Judaism probably for political reasons in surviving against two militaristic movements of Islam & Christianity…

…it should be noted that in the typical Mainstream Narrative habit of omitting important information, when it also comes to Ashkenazi/Kharazi history, the word “Iranian” is usually left out so readers only see the words “Turkish” and “Jewish”…

[pic "The Babylon Code" (2014) by R. N. Rhoades: Ashkenazi meant Iranian Scythians… the Gimirrai-Cimmerians were also an Iranian people…for educational purposes only]

 

“Religions and philosophies teach that man can become the Christ, Buddha and Zoroaster. What I’m trying to prove is wilder, and almost unattainable. This is what to do in the Universe so every being is born as Christ, Buddha or Zoroaster. I know that gravity is prone to everything you need to fly and my intention is not to make flying devices (aircraft or missiles), but teach individual to regain consciousness on his own wings … Further; I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. There are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened. No empty space on this planet, nor in the Universe… In black holes, what astronomers talk about, are the most powerful sources of energy and life.”

~ statement by the genius Serbo-Croatian-American inventor Nikola Tesla in an 1899 interview…

...the ultimate pride of all peoples of Iranian stock (dozens of tribes across Asia & Europe) is in having had Zoroaster and Cyrus in their national history… great role models especially at a time of chaos and confusion!!! 

...Iranian beliefs, often labeled as Zoroastrianism, taught Free Will and the human active role in choosing between Good vs. Evil… Monism is an Iranian view as kept in subsequent Iranian-based religions & philosophies such as Sufism…

[pic Heritage Institute: the image here the Chinvat Bridge from an Iranian Sogdian-Zoroastrian Funerary Couch found in China, now at Miho Museum in Japan… According to Bruce Duensing, “One could fall back onto the duality represented by the innovation of a religious theology invented by Zoroaster and also promulgated as an extension by the Egyptians. In this case of dualism you have a metaphysical basis of dualism expressed by a brotherhood of light versus a brotherhood of darkness. In the case of Zoroaster, the realms occupied by meta-realities and that of sensate reality are bridged literally by the image of the Chinvat Bridge that serves as a means of conveyance from one realm to the other, which has been replaced by the metaphor of light energy being channeled within the linearity of a tunnel, solar light being the source of living organism whether they be as intangible as thought or as physical as the body. In both cases of Alien Abduction and Near Death Experience the simulation of light unites them”… for educational purposes only]

In his 1921 book entitled “The Story of Mankind,” Dutch-American historian Hendrik van Loon reminded readers that since ancient times Iranians called themselves—and were known as—Aryans… 

van Loon also made reference to the “famous Persian proverb which admonishes the hero to ‘be bold but not too bold’…”

van Loon concluded his history book with the following:

“…personal ambitions and personal wickedness and personal greed had very little to do with the final outburst. The original mistake, which was responsible for all this misery, was committed when our scientists began to create a new world of steel and iron and chemistry and electricity and forgot that the human mind is slower than the proverbial turtle, is lazier than the well-known sloth, and marches from one hundred to three hundred years behind the small group of courageous leaders…the moral of the story is a simple one. The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership—who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship. They will have to serve for years as mere apprentices. They will have to fight their way to the top against every possible form of opposition. When they reach the bridge, mutiny of an envious crew may cause their death. But some day, a man will arise who will bring the vessel safely to port, and he shall be the hero of the ages.”

[pic TripAdvisor: According to a traveler on TripAdvisor, on a pillar at St. Mary’s Painswick church in England is a carving by a soldier dating to 1643 during the English Civil War that reads "Be bold, be bold, but not too bold"… for educational purposes only]