(Avestan Yima K̲h̲s̲h̲aēta “Yima the brilliant”), in abbreviated form Ḏj̲am , an Iranian hero who has “remained alive in popular and literary tradition, from Indo-Iranian times until our own day (see the texts collected, translated and commented upon by A. Christensen, Le premier homme et le premier roi dans l’histoire légendaire des Iraniens , ii). To the Indian hero Yama, son of Vivasvant, sometimes immortal man become god, sometimes the first human to have suffered death and to have become its god ( Rig-Veda Mahābhārata , Atharva-Veda cf. the texts in Christensen, op. cit.) there cor…