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Kush Nama, a Persian epic recounting the story of Kush the Tusked and Abtin. Faramarz-nama, a story about the Persian hero Faramarz; The Garshasp-nama of Asadi Tusi, a Persian epic about the hero Garshasp; Shahnameh, the national epic of Greater Iran and world's longest epic poetry written by one poet; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic
The epic story of Ramyana was adopted by several cultures across Asia. Shown here is a Thai historic artwork depicting the battle which took place between Rama and Ravana. A relief with part of the Ramayana epic, shows Rama killed the golden deer that turn out to be the demon Maricha in disguise. Prambanan Trimurti temple near Yogyakarta, Java ...
Ibonia, oral epic of Madagascar (first transcription: 1870) Martín Fierro by José Hernández (1872) Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson (c. 1874) Clarel by Herman Melville (1876) The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by William Morris (1876) L'Atlàntida by Jacint Verdaguer (1877) The Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold (1879)
The epic is a tragic love story of an ordinary couple, Kannaki and her husband Kovalan. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Cilappatikaram has more ancient roots in the Tamil bardic tradition, as Kannaki and other characters of the story are mentioned or alluded to in the Sangam literature such as in the Naṟṟiṇai and later texts such as the Kovalam Katai .
Approximately 553,500. The Epic of Manas ( Kyrgyz: Манас дастаны, romanized : Manas dastanı, ماناس دستانی) is a very long and traditional epic poem of the Kyrgyz people of Central Asia. Versions of the poem which date to the 19th century and contain historical events of the 18th century, though Kyrgyz tradition holds it ...
2008 (originally proclaimed in 2005) (3rd session) List. Representative. Darangen is a Maranao epic poem from the Lake Lanao region of Mindanao, Philippines. It consists of 17 cycles with 72,000 lines in iambic tetrameter or catalectic trochaic tetrameter. [1] Each cycle pertains to a different self-contained story.
Mesopotamian mythology refers to the myths, religious texts, and other literature that comes from the region of ancient Mesopotamia which is a historical region of Western Asia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system that occupies the area of present-day Iraq. In particular the societies of Sumer, Akkad, and Assyria, all of which ...
List of Asian mythologies. This is a list of mythologies native to Asia : Buddhist mythology. Chinese mythology. Christian mythology (in Western Asia) Georgian mythology. Greek mythology (see Greco-Buddhism) Hindu mythology. Ayyavazhi mythology.