Tahmuras- Persian HeroHero"Div-band"
Also known as: Tahmurath, Takhmurupa, and تهمورث
Description
When Tahmuras defeated and bound the demons, they ransomed their lives with a secret: the art of writing. Thirty scripts passed from the demons' hoard into human hands. Before him, humanity had no letters. After him, it never lacked them.
Mythology & Lore
The Demon-Binder
His Avestan name, Takhmurupa, appears in the Rām Yasht, where he is already praised as a mighty conqueror. The legend is older than any Persian text that survives in full.
Tahmuras inherited a world where divs still roamed freely. His father Hoshang had discovered fire and begun the first crafts, but the demons remained unbroken. Tahmuras gathered his forces, called upon divine aid, and rode against them. The Shahnameh tells how he defeated their armies and bound their leaders in chains. He did not destroy the captive divs. He put them to work.
The bound demons sought to ransom what freedom remained to them. They offered a secret they had long guarded: the art of script. Thirty different scripts, according to the Shahnameh, passed from the divs to Tahmuras. He spread this knowledge among humanity. Writing entered the world as a ransom paid by evil.
When Tahmuras died after thirty years on the throne, his son Jamshid inherited both the kingdom and its tools: fire from Hoshang and letters wrung from demons.