Great Caesar's Ghost
The name, Gesar, is evocative of the Latin Caesar, from which we get the German Kaiser, and also the Russian word for "king," Tsar.) Noted mythologist Joseph Campbell (1968, 107) also had this impression, but pointed out that, although some think the Gesar material refers to "the glories that were Rome," there is also a commonality in the pre-Islamic Persian word for "sovereignty" which is sahr.
There are further links. Gesar is said to have ruled the land of Phrom from a city called Rum. The town that later became the legislative capital of the eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium (Constantinople, now Istanbul) was known as "Rome" or Rum to those who knew of no other Roman centre. Interestingly, its main religious shrine was to the Wisdom Goddess. (It later became a church dedicated to "Santa Sophia," and though it is today a mosque, it is still called Hagia Sophia.
Great Caesar's Ghost
The name, Gesar, is evocative of the Latin Caesar, from which we get the German Kaiser, and also the Russian word for "king," Tsar.) Noted mythologist Joseph Campbell (1968, 107) also had this impression, but pointed out that, although some think the Gesar material refers to "the glories that were Rome," there is also a commonality in the pre-Islamic Persian word for "sovereignty" which is sahr.
There are further links. Gesar is said to have ruled the land of Phrom from a city called Rum. The town that later became the legislative capital of the eastern Roman Empire, Byzantium (Constantinople, now Istanbul) was known as "Rome" or Rum to those who knew of no other Roman centre. Interestingly, its main religious shrine was to the Wisdom Goddess. (It later became a church dedicated to "Santa Sophia," and though it is today a mosque, it is still called Hagia Sophia.
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