QuoteReplyTopic: What does it mean? Posted: 04-Nov-2006 at 13:33
Can you translate this phrase please?
GYAN-AVSPAR PESHMERGA.
I know they were cataphracts of the Sassanid Army during the 5th and 6th century.
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
GYAN-AVSPAR mean the Sacrificers of their lives in Pahlavi.They are also known colloquially as the Peshmerga.The Gyan-avspar should be a no nonsense combat unit. Chosen for their bravery rather than nobility or Family ties they do not have to impress men with their status, only their fighting ability.
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.
Plato
Gyan means soul (Still gyan in Kurdish tongues and now jan in Persian)
avspar: horsemen
peeshmarg-ha: equivalent of immortal.
Peshmerga simply means prior-dyers. So they will die prior to their cause or their lord. Kurdish soldiers call themselves by this name still, though not many non-Iranian Kurds know what it means exactly.
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