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Astomi · salience 0.95

“They subsist on scents, absorbing life through the aromas of flowers.”

Pairika

“By contrast, the later Peri of Persian and wider Islamicate literature (including its passage into Arabic and Ottoman Turkish storytelling) is typically imagined as a winged, radiantly beautiful being who subsists on perfume or scent rather than food, dwells in hidden gardens or the mythical land of Peristan, and is often at war with the malevolent jinn or div, reversing the Pairika's original allegiance with the forces of darkness.”