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The Huma ((ペルシア語:هما), pronounced ''Homā'', Avestan: ''Homāio''), also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said to never alight on the ground, and instead to live its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth. Huma is the most commonly attested mythical bird in Turkish Diwan poetry.〔 ==Onomastics== New Persian ''Homa'' derives from Avestan ''Homāio''. In several dialects of the Persian language, the name 'Homa' is additionally applied to the Bearded vulture (lammergeier). In Turkic mythology, the bird is called ''Kumay''〔 or ''Umay'' which was used as a symbol of Çepni, one of the 24 tribal organizations of Oghuz Turks. Umay is the goddess of fertility and virginity in Turkic mythology and Tengriism.〔 In Arabic the bird is called ''Bulah''. There are numerous folk interpretations of the name, among them that of the Sufi teacher Inayat Khan, who supposed that "in the word ''Huma'', ''hu'' represents spirit, and the word ''mah'' originates from the Arabic "Ma'a" ماء which means water."〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Huma bird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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