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Music & vocals by Farya Faraji. Please note that this isn’t reconstructed ancient music, it’s modern Iranian music with an ancient theme. The lyrics are in the Avestan language, an East Iranic language in whose cultural context the Zoroastrian religion was born, hence why Avestan remains to this day the liturgical language of the religion. Airyanam Vaejah is a legendary homeland of the Iranian peoples described in the Zoroastrian texts, variously located by modern day researchers around areas in Afghanistan and the neighbouring regions. The root of the word Airyanam is the same as Iran and Iranian. The Iranians, whose name was pronounced more like Aryan, thousands of years ago, would name their land after them, hence how get Aryana, which over time morphs into Eran, and into Iran, disproving the widely popular myth that Persia, the foreign Ancient Greek exonym of the land, is somehow the ancient, historical name of Iran. The instrumentation consists of a tombak drum, a kurdish tanbour, an o
