Anahita

Anahita is the goddess of harvest, fertility, luck, health, and fresh water. Before the rise of the Parsan Empire she was known locally by different names, Inanna, Ishtar, Sarassvati. Her cults and shrines were present throughout the Parsan world, as many villages made offerings to Anahita to protect their harvests as well as their health and many healers would give offering to Anahita. She is also revered as the heavenly river goddess who brings fresh water to the earth, filling streams, rivers, and seas. Under the influence of Parsan cults she came to be depicted as a beautiful, strong maiden, clad in beaver-skins, who drives a chariot drawn by four mounts representing wind, rain, clouds, and sleet. As water-divinity she is worshiped as a bestower of fertility, who purifies the seed of all males, the wombs of all females, and makes the milk flow which nourishes their young. She nurtures crops and herds; and she is hailed both as a divinity and as the mythical river which she personifies, “as great in bigness as all these waters which flow forth upon the earth.”