Yima

American  

[yee-mah] / ˈyi mɑ /

noun

Zoroastrianism.

1. a legendary king who, having reigned under the protection of Ahura Mazda in perfect happiness, sinned and lost for the world the immortality it had enjoyed.

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Example Sentences

About 270 firefighters and rescue workers have completed three rounds of search and rescue since the Friday evening explosion in Yima city in Henan province, China’s Ministry of Emergency Management said.

From Washington Times

It relates how Yima, who in the original and primitive conception was the father of the human race, was warned by Ahuramazda, the good deity, of the earth being about to be devastated by a flood.

From Project Gutenberg

But along with this we are told that even in Yima's time the earth glowed with red fires; the power of the old sayings of the fire-priests is extolled; the professors of the first, and those of the new law receive commendation.

From Project Gutenberg

In the same way the old Arian legend of the golden age of Yima must be harmonised with the new doctrine of the creation, and a relation must be established between the sacrificers of the old days, who were without the good law of Zarathrustra, and the latter.

From Project Gutenberg

We saw that the legends of Iran began with the happy age of Yima, and his reign of a thousand years full of increase and blessing.

From Project Gutenberg