In this ethnicity’s folklore, a king who feeds children to a series of snakes on his shoulders is deposed by a blacksmith who turned his apron into a banner. This ethnicity depicts spirits called fravashi that resemble a man in a winged sun. The simurgh and manticore originate from the folklore (-5[1])of this (10[1])ethnicity, (10[1])whose epic “Book of Kings” chronicles the hero (10[1])Rostam. A prophet of this ethnicity (-5[1])described a conflict between daevas (10[2])led by Angra Mainyu and ahuras led by Ahura Mazda (10[1])that forms the basis of a religion whose followers build fire temples and Towers of Silence. For 10 points, (10[2])name this ethnicity, the largest in the modern-day homeland of Zoroaster. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])