Kundrav
Also called Gandareva, Gandarewa, Lord of the Abyss.
In Persian mythology, Kundrav, also called Gandareva, is a colossal dragon-like sea demon so vast that his upper body reached the sky while his lower body rested in the ocean.
At a glance
- Tradition
- Persian mythology
- Trait family
- The Stone-Gazers
- Symbols
- Dragon
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Symbols
Judged against the description by a model. Meanings are our own paraphrase.
- Dragon is image-domain The dragon denotes chaotic instinctual power, guardian of hoarded treasure and fertility, destructive in the West and, in China, the beneficent waterlike way of things.
why
In Persian mythology, Kundrav, also called Gandareva, is a colossal dragon-like sea demon so vast that his upper body reached the sky while his lower body rested in the ocean.
Traits
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Form
- Body of cosmic immeasurable size
why
Accounts agree on his defining trait of sheer size, picturing a dragon-like body so immense that its upper reaches touched the sky while its lower body remained submerged in the depths of the ocean below.
Roles
Judged from the works' own entries, not from the description. Carries: the figure holds the role. Meets: the role is in its stories, held by something it meets.
- Shadow carries
3 citations
- Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, s.v. "Kundrav."
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Kundrav."
- Hero meets
3 citations
- Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters, and Dragons, s.v. "Kundrav."
- Firdausi, translated by Arthur George Warner and Edmond Warner, The Sháhnáma.
- Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore, s.v. "Kundrav."