259:, Sasanian sources cannot be trusted because they were from the royal Sasanian archives, which were made by the court, in the words of Daryaee, "to fit the world-view of the late Sasanian world". Daryaee and several other scholars state that Sasan had his name from a deity who was known in many parts of
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These stories on different relations between
Ardashir, PÄpak, and SÄsÄn have, according to Frye, a Zoroastrian explanation. Sasan was indeed the father of Ardashir and "disappears" from the story after the birth of Ardashir. Similar to the current Zoroastrian practices, Papak had then taken the
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but not in Fars, the homeland of the
Sasanians, which thus means that Sasan was an Iranian foreigner from the west or the east who had settled in Fars, whose inhabitants did not know about this deity he believed in. Sasan later managed to become the priest of the important Anahid temple in
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Sasan's family became the rulers of the second
Persian Empire and ruled over a great portion of western Asia (the first Persian Empire having been ruled by the dynasty of
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Sasan is known for his efforts to try to bring
Zoroastrianism back into the empire. He even encouraged Papak to take over the Parthian satrapy of Pars.
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