Kaveh
Zoroastrian · mortal · legendary · Recorded classification
The apron on the spear becomes the Derafsh Kaviani, the royal standard of Iran through the Sasanian period, and the story is the single best-known political image the epic produced. He is a commoner, which in a corpus of this kind is worth saying: the registry's Iranian holdings were kings, heroes and their fathers, and the one figure in the cycle who is none of those was the one it did not have.
Domains
- rebellion and liberation
- smithcraft
Relations
- rebelled against: Azhi DahakaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Azhi Dahaka record, which the corpus already holds with Zahhak as an alias.Reference treatment: Kaveh the Blacksmith leads an uprising against Zahak, narrated in the Shahnameh. (secondary)
Sources
- Kaveh is the blacksmith of the Shahnameh who leads the uprising against Zahhak and raises his leather apron on a spear as its standard.: Reference treatments of Kaveh the Blacksmith and of the Shahnameh. (secondary)