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. (10[1])This ethnicity depicts spirits called fravashi that resemble a man in a winged sun. The simurgh and manticore originate from the folklore of this ethnicity, whose epic “Book of Kings” chronicles the hero (10[1])Rostam. (-5[1])A prophet of this ethnicity described a conflict (10[1])between daevas led by Angra Mainyu and ahuras led by (10[1])Ahura (-5[1])Mazda that forms the basis (10[1])of a (10[1])religion whose followers build fire temples and Towers of Silence. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this ethnicity, the largest in the modern-day homeland of Zoroaster. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])