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Overview

The Haoma hymn credits Keresaspa with striking a horned dragon that swallows people and horses. Its body is green, and streams of greenish poison are compared in thickness with thumbs. The notice follows the hero’s birth as one of Thrita’s two sons.

Keresaspa once sets an iron cooking vessel on the dragon’s back for his midday meal. Scorched by the cooking, the creature springs up and overturns the boiling water; the frightened hero flees headlong. The selected passage supplies this vivid encounter without giving the dragon a personal name.

Green bodyHornedPoison streamsPeople and horse swallowingCooking-vessel awakening
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Origins & earliest records

Iranian Zoroastrian religious narrative and cosmology

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Records & interpretation

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    Yasna

    L. H. Mills, with explicitly marked editorial revisions · 1898

    9.10–11; hosted historical edition date, not text-composition date.

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Yasna

Yasna. 9.10–11

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  1. Historical religious primary-text translationYasna 9.10–11 — primary translationResearch access: 2026-10-05

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