Throne
The throne denotes spiritual and temporal authority, justice, stability, and a world-center linking sovereign, subject, heaven, and earth.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Symbol
- Borne by
- 2 figures
- Traditions
- Jewish folklore (1)Persian mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is, or is partly, this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Asmodeus bears Jewish folklore
why
Asmodeus, or Ashmedai, is the destroying arch-demon of Jewish tradition, king of the sheddim, slayer of Sara's seven bridegrooms in Tobit, and the demon who briefly usurped Solomon's throne.
- Azhi Dahaka bears Persian mythology
why
In the later Zoroastrian Middle Persian literature of Sasanian and post-Sasanian Iran he appears as Dahāg, and in New Persian epic tradition, above all Ferdowsi's eleventh-century Shahnameh, he is transformed into the human tyrant Zahhak, a usurping king whose reign embodies misrule and demonic corruption of the Iranian throne.