Crossword-Solution: YIMA 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The god ordered Yima to construct a refuge, a square garden, vara, protected by an enclosure, and to cause the germs of men, beasts, and plants to enter it, in order to escape annihilation.

Accordingly, when the inundation occurred, the garden of Yima, with all that it contained, was alone spared, and the message of safety was brought thither by the bird Karshipta, the envoy of Ahuramazda." ("Vendûdid," vol.

Yima, the Noah of the story, was warned by the beginning of a great winter rain, by which the waters were raised 19,000 feet.

Like other thoughtful races, the Iranians speculated upon the early condition of mankind, and conceived a golden age, and a king then reigning over a perfectly happy people, whom they called King Yima--Yima-khshaeta--the modern Persian Jemshid.

Yima, according to the legend, had dwelt originally in Aryanem vaejo--the primitive seat of the Arians--and had there reigned gloriously and peacefully for awhile; but the evils of winter having come upon his country, he had removed from it with his subjects, and had retired to a secluded spot where he and his people enjoyed uninterrupted happiness.