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| '''Kurdish ]''' is the collective term for the beliefs and practices of the culturally, ethnically or linguistically related group of ancient peoples who inhabited the ] mountains of northwestern ], northern ] and southeastern ]. | |||
| In Kurdish mythology, the ancestors of the Kurds fled to the mountains to escape the oppression of a king named ]. It is believed that these people, like ] who hid in the mountains over the course of history created a ] ethnicity.<ref>{{citation |title=No Friends but the Mountains: The Tragic History of the Kurds |year=1993 |author=John Bulloch, Harvey Morris |page=50}}</ref>{{Better source|date=November 2015}} | |||
| The Sasanian king ] is highly esteemed in the '''Kurdish''' oral tradition, literature and '''mythology'''.<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://search.proquest.com/openview/b7a6d20dd731bbe2c69a6e6b9dc39fca/1?pq-origsite=gscholar|title = Kurdish Library - Kurdish Museum|last = |first = |date = Summer 1991|work = |access-date = |via = |pages = 117–123}}</ref> | |||
| Mountains, to this day, are still important geographical and symbolic figures in Kurdish life. | |||
| In common with other national myths, Kurdish mythology is used for political aims.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Between the map and the reality : some fundamental myths of Kurdish nationalism|last = O'SHEA M. T.|first = |publisher = |year = |isbn = |location = |pages = |url = http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3741076}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://alternatifpolitika.com/page/docs/kasim-2012-sayi-3/fulltext/rasimozgurdonmez.pdf|title = CONSTRUCTING KURDISH NATIONALIST IDENTITY THROUGH LYRICAL NARRATIVES IN POPULAR MUSIC|last = RÖ DÖNMEZ|first = |date = 2012|journal = Alternative Politics/Alternatif Politika|doi = |pmid = |access-date = |quote = The narrative is based on Kurdish mythology for political targets and the aesthetics of territory|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140912032050/http://alternatifpolitika.com/page/docs/kasim-2012-sayi-3/fulltext/rasimozgurdonmez.pdf|archivedate= September 12, 2014|deadurl=yes}}</ref> | |||
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