Rustam, Mithraʼs Soldier

The narration collection which has been mentioned in Iranian national book is divided to the three main periods: myth, epic and historical. Rustam is the main hero in epic period of Shahnameh. His principal work is guardedness and maintenance to Iranian kingdom. Numerous valuable researches about various aspects of this deep character are done, but there is ambiguousness and questions about some of Rustamʼs characteristics, meaning of his name, some of his epithets, and some of his weapons, yet. In this paper a few of Rustamʼs characteristics and of his works is studied in epic and myth and linguistic sphere, and with pay attention to Rustam is a Scythian according to Shahnameh, his name and his tāj-baxš epithet and his armor named as babr i bayān is studied on the basis of Scythian language vocabulary. In addition, it is shown that Rustam has no relation and connection with Indra and Apām Napāt, but with Mithra.