Persian
Simurgh
A great, wise bird from Persian legend, who heals and guides.
The Simurgh is an enormous, ancient and wise bird in Persian myth and in the epic Shahnameh, where it raises the hero Zal and gives him a feather to call it by. It is linked with healing and with knowing the world.
In a later Persian poem, The Conference of the Birds, thirty birds seek the Simurgh, and the name itself means "thirty birds".