masoumeh bagheri hassankiyadeh

In some Manichaean hymns, the Father of Greatness, Mihr Yazd and Narisaf Yazd are praised with an epic style and a literary approach that relies more on epithets. Among them, the hymns to Third Messenger (Narisaf Yazd) in the Parthian texts, described as Miϑra, and some of the epithets attributed to him are Miϑra’s that we can see them in Mihr Yašt and Pahlavi sources. Among the hymns to Narisaf Yazd, in the manuscripts in Turfan collection that are kept in the Museum of Berlin, there are two hymns with the M 67 and M 77 signatures that they have references to the Sassanid Zoroastrian community and the Parthian community more than the others. This research primarily focuses on the role of Miϑra and Nariyosang in shaping the character of Narisaf Yazd, and then the literary influences of Avesta, Mihr Yašt and Pahlavi sources on these two Parthian hymns are studied.