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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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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

As a reward there was born to him the brilliant Yima, the lord of the nations, the most famous of all who have seen the sun.

From Project Gutenberg

And Yima made a citadel of the length of a horse's course.

From Project Gutenberg

In this enclosure which Yima made men lived the happiest life.

From Project Gutenberg