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Zahhāk or Zahāk ( pronounced ) (: ضحّاک‎) is an evil figure in, evident in ancient Persian as Aži Dahāka (: اژی دهاک‎), the name by which he also appears in the texts of the. In he is called Dahāg (: دهاگ‎) or Bēvar Asp (: بیور اسپ‎) the latter meaning 'he who has 10,000 horses'. In, Zahhak (going under the name Aži Dahāka) is considered the son of, the foe of. In the of, Zahhāk is the son of a ruler named Merdās. Painting, depicting Zahhāk ascending on the royal throne. According to Ferdowsi, Zahhāk was born as the son of a ruler named Merdās (: مرداس‎).

Because of his lineage, he is sometimes called Zahhāk-e Tāzī (: ضحاکِ تازی‎), meaning 'Zahhāk the '. He was handsome and clever, but had no stability of character and was easily influenced by evil counsellors. Therefore chose him as the tool for his plans for world domination. When Zahhāk was a young man, Ahriman first appeared to him as a glib, flattering companion, and by degrees convinced him that he ought to kill his own father and take over his territories.

He taught him to dig a deep pit covered over with leaves in a place where Merdās was accustomed to walk; Merdās fell in and was killed. Zahhāk thus became both and king at the same time.

Ahriman now took another guise, and presented himself to Zahhāk as a marvellous cook. After he had presented Zahhāk with many days of sumptuous feasts (introducing meat to the formerly vegetarian human cuisine), Zahhāk was willing to give Ahriman whatever he wanted. Ahriman merely asked to kiss Zahhāk on his two shoulders. Zahhāk permitted this; but when Ahriman had touched his lips to Zahhāk's shoulders, he immediately vanished. At once, two black snakes grew out of Zahhāk's shoulders.

They could not be surgically removed, for as soon as one snake-head had been cut off, another took its place. Ahriman now appeared to Zahhāk in the form of a skilled physician. He counselled Zahhāk that the only remedy was to let the snakes remain on his shoulders, and sate their hunger by supplying them with human brains for food every day otherwise the snakes will feed on his own. Zahhāk the Emperor [ ]. Princess Tigranuhi, daughter of, before wedding with. Azhdahak is identified as in Armenian sources.

About this time,, who was then the ruler of the world, through his arrogance lost his divine right to rule. Zahhāk presented himself as a savior to those discontented Iranians who wanted a new ruler.

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Collecting a great army, he marched against Jamshid, who fled when he saw that he could not resist Zahhāk. Zahhāk hunted Jamshid for many years, and at last caught him and subjected him to a miserable death—he had Jamshid sawn in half. Zahhāk now became the ruler of the entire world.

Among his slaves were two of Jamshid's daughters, and (the Avestan Arənavāci and Savaŋhavāci). Zahhāk's two snake heads still craved human brains for food, so every day Zahhāk's spies would seize two men, and execute them so their brains could feed the snakes. Two men, called Armayel and Garmayel, wanted to find a way to rescue people from being killed from the snakes. So they learned cookery and after mastering how to cook great meals, they went to Zahhāk's palace and managed to become the chefs of the palace. Every day, they saved one of the two men and put the brain of a sheep instead of his into the food, but they could not save the lives of both men.