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This article appears to be making a specific point about Shammash being a Semitic sun god. While the name "Shammash" is Semitic, originating from Assyrian conquers, the god Shammash, and his legends, were derived from the non-Semitic, Sumerian god, Utu. Babylonia's entire pantheon was an Assyrian and Akkadian adaptation of the Sumerian pantheon, and the Zodiac originated from Sumerian roots. WingedEarth (talk) 18:11, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
Invalid license removed. "non-commercial-use only" and "for wikipedia only" licenses are not valid at wikipedia. All content must be free for any commercial re-use. Everything else is a copyright violation. - Aksi_great (talk) 08:08, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Hi Guys! I might have accidentally removed the code of the image on the beginning of the article, of the golden lion and sun pendant with diamonds. Could anyone fix it, thanks and sorry for the inconvenience! --Proffiranic (talk) 16:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
ُThanks --Proffiranic (talk) 08:51, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
Removing section written on Iranian roots of Lion and Sun icon Before removing such information one needs to note it's reasons. Engheta is a professor in Iranian Studies and his book is a collection of sources which he analyses. He is not the only scolar to come to the concussion that the Lion and Sun has Iranian roots, scolars like Kaveh Farrokh and others have done so as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Proffiranic (talk • contribs) 19:20, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
1. The source is not reliable and cannot be used where Encyclopedia Iranica and Encyclopedia of Islam and Ahmad Kasravi and Afsaneh Najmabadi are used as sources. These sources outweighed Naser Enqeta's book. Naser Enqta is just a TV-show host in a small ethnic TV channel in LA. He has no publication in mainstream and reliable history journals. He has no publication which has been published by a well-known publisher either. His book is a self-published source. Any of these reasons is enough to reject using his book as a reference.
2. On the seal claimed to be the pre-Islamic Iranian Lion and sun. Actually, the seal represents the divinity of love, sex and war and not the sun. That seal is Greco_Persian which is reproduction of Assyrian, and Ancient Mesopotamian seals (See here [1] by Prof. Parpola, the assyrilogist ). In Mesopotamia the love divinities (Assyrian Ishtar and Sumerian Inanna were associated with lion and the Achaemenid seal is just follows an old Near Eastern tradition (See these Images of Assyrian Ishtar[2]) (and Sumerian Inanna image[3]). Interesting to know that for all of these divinity, their astrological object was Venus. In conclusion the seal represents divinity of love which itself is the copy of Assyrian seals of Ishtar. Similar Sumerian seals can be found for Sumerian love divinity, Inanna.
I quote Dr. Parpola's accounts on this seal:
"The Achaemenid seal discovered on the northeast coast of the Black Sea and represents the goddess Anahita, mounted on a lion and surrounded by the divine radiance, appearing to a Persian king. The details of the king's and the goddess's dress and crown are Persian, but in all other respects the seal is a faithful reproduction of centuries older Assyrian seals depicting appearances of the goddess Ishtar to members of the imperial ruling class. It thus illustrates not only the adoption of the Mesopotamian concept of "divine radiance" by the Persians"
For more information you can see Dr. Kurt book [4] or Cambridge Ancient History book [5]
I think these information are enough. I restore the old version before these wrong information were added.Pasitigris1 (talk) 04:03, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
--Proffiranic (talk) 12:21, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
Since this author seems to be the cause of this entire discussion, I tried to look up his book, but could find nothing. Is this the correct title and author name, or is it something else? warrior4321 22:39, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
FYI, in Persian Wikipedia where admins are much familiar with Iranian authors. Books of Engheta are not allowed to be used as a reliable source. More than that, I showed that the information of the book is wrong. According to several orientalists the seal represents Ishtar/Anahita and not Lion and sunPasitigris1 (talk) 00:19, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
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@Sodacan: Dear Sodacan, I appreciate your design, but I want to let you know that between 1973 to 1979 this emblem was standardized and used on lots of documents. Please look at these images: Former Iranian passport, Standardized Lion and Sun on a flag, On a birth certificate, On official postage stamps Shfarshid (talk) 13:05, 12 March 2017 (UTC)
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@LouisAragon: Dear Louis, Lion and Sun is the former emblem of Iran and the Red Lion and Sun is still an official emblem however no country uses it. There were some Iranian governmental regulations for Lion and Sun design. The one that I added to the article and you undid it was one of the most identical designs to 1965 governmental regulation based on "Y. Ḏokāʾ, “Tārīḵča-ye taḡyīrāt o taḥawwolāt-e derafš o ʿalāmat-e dawlat-e Īrān az āḡāz-e sada-ye sīzdahom-e hejrī-e qamarī tā emrūz,” Honar o mardom, 1344 Š./1965, no. 31, pp. 13-24, nos. 32-33, pp. 21-38, no. 34, pp. 25-40, no. 35, pp. 33-37, no. 38, pp. 21-29 (essential for the Qajar period)" that is one of the sources of Encyclopedia Iranica. This design is based on an Iranian Red Lion and Sun postal stamp. The designs that you preferred have some issues: In this design the lion's mouth and nose is unrealistic and look like a pig. In this design, the sword's curve is incorrect and it looks like a boomerang. You can find the correct Persian sword picture in Shamshir article. These 2 pictures were designed by wikipedians and there is no source to support their accuracy. Shfarshid (talk) 02:22, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
In the Non Iranian flag section we see the Tajikistan flag. Since when is Tajikistan not included as an Iranian/Persianate society? 115.70.22.252 (talk) 00:54, 12 October 2022 (UTC)