Yima

[ yee-mah ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Zoroastrianism.

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.

When Yima pressed the earth with this ring, the genius of the Earth, Aramaîti, responded to his wish and order.

Yima then built a refuge in which mankind and the domesticated animals might find shelter during a terrible winter.

Yima replied, “I was not born, I was not taught, to be the preacher and the bearer of thy law.”

Later, Yima appears as no longer the first man, or even the first king.

After this follows what we may call a history of the beginnings of civilization under Yima, the Persian Noah.

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