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 (10[1])of this ethnicity, whose epic “Book of Kings” chronicles the hero Rostam. A prophet of this ethnicity described a conflict between daevas led by Angra Mainyu and ahuras led by Ahura Mazda that forms the basis of a religion whose followers build fire temples and Towers of Silence. For 10 points, name this ethnicity, the largest in the modern-day homeland of Zoroaster. ■END■