Adur Farnbag

Adur Farnbag

Greaterwell-documentedZoroastrianism (pre-Islamic Iran)IranFars Province (possible/uncertain claim)
Origin

Secondary sources report that Adur Farnbag, together with Adur Gushnasp and Adur Burzen‑Mihr, was 'installed' as one of the three Great or Royal fires in the Parthian period and maintained into the Sasanian era. The sources treat these fires as institutional sacred loci that were established at key sites of ritual and political significance in late antique Iran; they do not supply a mythic biography or an anthropomorphic origin narrative for Adur Farnbag itself.

Appearance

Adur Farnbag is described in the sources not as an anthropomorphic being but as a continuously tended sacred fire housed within a fire‑temple or temple complex. No personified visual form is given. One tourism source reports (uncertainly) that Adur Farnbag was located at Karyan in modern Fars Province; more general treatments place it among the three geographically distributed Great Fires of Iran.

Abilities

The sources do not ascribe autonomous agency or personified powers to Adur Farnbag. Rather, late‑antique legends and secondary accounts attribute miracles and healings to the place of the fire — i.e., miracle narratives and reports of healing are associated with the cult site. Functionally, the fire served ritual, cultic, and symbolic roles within Zoroastrian worship and royal/communal identity as reported by the surveyed references.

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Ancient

Adur Burzen-Mihr

Adur Burzen-Mihr is a consecrated Atash Behram — one of the three Great Fires of late antique Sasanian Zoroastrianism — historically associated with the farmer social estate and with a cultic location in northeastern Iran. Medieval texts (e.g., the Bundahishn) and later summaries record it as a major pilgrimage fire with legendary associations of protection and miraculous efficacy; its documentary history after the early Islamic period is unclear.

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Sources
  1. [1]
    Fire temple - New World Encyclopedia. 'These were the, Great Fires, or, Royal Fires, of Adur Burzen‑Mihr, Adur Farnbag, and Adur Gushnasp.'wiki
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    Fire Temple - World History Encyclopedia. As with Adur Gushnasp, legends of miracles and healings were associated with Adur Farnbag just as they were with Adur Burzen‑Mihr.wiki
  3. [3]
    AHURAMAZDA.COM - ZOROASTRIAN WEBSITE (Fire temple page). During the Parthian period 248 BCE to 224 CE the three great fires of Zoroastrianism, Adur Farnbag, Adur Gushnasp and Adur Burzen Mihr, were installed.other
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    Fire & Light in Zoroastrianism. Kinds of Fire. Energy of Creation - Heritage Institute. Provides the form 'Azarfarnbag' as a variant rendering and discusses 'Adur' as the Middle Persian element for a sacred fire.other
  5. [5]
    Takht-e Soleyman | ToIran, Tourism Platform (Takht-e Soleyman page). 'Adur Farnbag was the fire of persists and was located in Karyan in modern day Fars Province.' (phrase in source appears unclear/uncertain)other
  6. [6]
    Bibliographia Iranica - Sasanians and the Silk Road. Discusses the three Great Fires as part of a ritual and spatial geography constructed at key locations along routes such as the Silk Road.other
  7. [7]
    Wikipedia: Adur Gushnasp (mentions the triad of Great Fires including Adur Farnbag). Adur Farnbag is named alongside Adur Gushnasp and Adur Burzen‑Mihr as the three Great or Royal fires.wiki
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