Gaokerena
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In Persian and Zoroastrian legends, the mighty Gaokerena was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties when eaten and gave immortality to the resurrected bodies of the dead.[1][2][3] The juice from its fruit gave the elixir of immortality. The name Gaokerena means "ox horn" or "cow ear".
Evil naturally tried to destroy this life-giving tree and formed a lizard or frog to attack it, but it was protected by the ten Kara fish and a donkey with nine mouths and six eyes.
At the resurrection, those who drink of the life-giving juice of this plant will obtain perfect welfare, including deathlessness.
It bears similarity to the Biblical and Islamic Tree of Life.[2]
Notes
- ^ Frick, Fay Arrieh (1993). "Possible Sources for Some Motifs of Decoration on Islamic Ceramics". Muqarnas. 10: 231–240. doi:10.2307/1523188. ISSN 0732-2992.
- ^ a b Lechler, George (1937). "The Tree of Life in Indo-European and Islamic Cultures". Ars Islamica. 4: 369–419. ISSN 1939-6406.
- ^ Carnoy, Albert J. (1916). "Iranian Views of Origins in Connection with Similar Babylonian beliefs". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 36: 300–320. doi:10.2307/592687. ISSN 0003-0279.
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