Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Анахита" in Russian language version.
«Anāhit(a)»—that is, the composite being born of the assimilation of Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā and *Anāhiti…
Arədvī Sūrā’s striking growth in popularity seems to have begun in Achaemenid times, through her identification with the Western Iranian divinity *Anāhiti, known from Greek sources as Anaitis (see below).
The first Achaemenid king known publicly to have acknowledged «Anāhit(a)»—that is, the composite being born of the assimilation of Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā and *Anāhiti—was Artaxerxes II (404—359 B.C.), who in inscriptions invoked her after Ahura Mazdā and Mithra, (qq.v.) and who also set up cult-statues in her honor (see further under Anaitis); and it was presumably after this that verses were composed and incorporated in Yašt 5 which apparently describe a temple statue (see Ābān Yašt). In these Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā is invoked, not as the personification of a rushing river, but as a magnificently static being, richly arrayed in high-girt robe and jewel-encrusted mantle, with golden shoes and earrings, necklace, and crown.
«Anāhit(a)»—that is, the composite being born of the assimilation of Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā and *Anāhiti…
Arədvī Sūrā’s striking growth in popularity seems to have begun in Achaemenid times, through her identification with the Western Iranian divinity *Anāhiti, known from Greek sources as Anaitis (see below).
The first Achaemenid king known publicly to have acknowledged «Anāhit(a)»—that is, the composite being born of the assimilation of Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā and *Anāhiti—was Artaxerxes II (404—359 B.C.), who in inscriptions invoked her after Ahura Mazdā and Mithra, (qq.v.) and who also set up cult-statues in her honor (see further under Anaitis); and it was presumably after this that verses were composed and incorporated in Yašt 5 which apparently describe a temple statue (see Ābān Yašt). In these Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā is invoked, not as the personification of a rushing river, but as a magnificently static being, richly arrayed in high-girt robe and jewel-encrusted mantle, with golden shoes and earrings, necklace, and crown.
