The Simorgh and the Boy on the Mountain — Middle East & Persia (Lesser-Known) | Bedtime World Tour
Tonight we travel to Iran, to the Alborz mountains, whose peaks stand so high above everything else that the birds who nest on them are the only creatures that ever see the top. A great warrior finally gets the son he has waited years for, and the boy is perfect, except that his hair is white as snow — and out of nothing worse than embarrassment his father has him carried up into those mountains and left there. What comes down for him is the Simorgh, an enormous bird older than the mountain she nests on. She raises him with her own young, and years later, when his father comes back, she gives…
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