>>19912594>Zahhak (aka Sultan Sahâk), a dark, mythical tyrant reminding of Nimrod.In the Avesta, Aži Dahāka is said to have lived in the inaccessible fortress of Kuuirinta in the land of Baβri, where he worshipped the yazatas Arədvī Sūrā (Anāhitā), divinity of the rivers, and Vayu divinity of the storm-wind. Based on the similarity between Baβri and Old Persian Bābiru (Babylon), later Zoroastrians localized Aži Dahāka in Mesopotamia (Sumer).According to Ferdowsi, Zahhāk was born as the son of a ruler named Merdās (also called Khrutasp of Babylon). Because of his Arab lineage, he is sometimes called Zahhāk-e Tāzī, meaning "Zahhāk the Tayyi".
This association between Babylon and Arabia is interesting because Nimrod's father was Cush, the Bible suggests the land of Cush isn't Ethiopia but instead an area somewhere in the region of southern Iraq or Saudi Arabia.
Encyclopedia Britannica 1911:
>That the term was also applied to parts of Arabia is evident from Gen. x. 7, where Cush is the "father" of certain tribal and ethnical designations, all of which point very clearly to Arabia, with the very doubtful exception of Seba, which Josephus (Ant. ii. 10.2) identifies with Meroe.' Even in the 5th century A.D. the Himyarites, in the south of Arabia, were styled by Syrian writers Cushaeans and EthiopiansJewish Encyclopedia:
>This African country is evidently meant in Gen. x. 6, but in the next verse six Arabic tribes are mentioned as sons of Cush, and in verse 8, Nimrod, the representative of Babylonia (Assyria), appears as his descendant 