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{{Short description|Character in Shahnama}}
{{Expand Persian|آتبین|date=December 2020}}
'''Abtin''' ({{Langx|fa|آبتین}}), or '''Athwya''', is a character in [[Shahnama]] (national epic of [[Iran]]), who is the father of [[Fereydun]]. He is mentioned as the father of [[Fereydun]] in the [[Avesta]], having been the "second man" to prepare [[Ahura Mazda|Ahura-Mazda]] for the "corporeal world" (the first being [[Jamshid]], and the third being [[Trita|Thrita]]).<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mills|first=L.H.|title=The Zend Avesta III: The Sacred Books of the East Vol 31|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1887|pages=233}}</ref> His name comes from the same origin as "[[Apam Napat|Āptya]]", a title for water-born deities or heroes in the [[Rigveda]]. According to the [[Shatapatha Brahmana]], that the first to bear this title was [[Agni]], and that he subsequently created three Aptyas, [[Trita]], Dvita, and Ekata, when he spat on the [[Ap (water)|waters]] in anger.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Eggeling|first=Julius|title=Satapatha Brahmana Part 1|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1882|location=Oxford}}</ref>

==References==
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* [http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/abtin-father-of-the-mythical-king-feridun Encyclopædia Iranica]

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