Sassanids and Sassenachs
- arionahram

- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min read
Updated: May 14, 2023

If you look at the top of the Queen of England's crown, you will find an insignia that is strikingly similar to the Sassanids Kingdom insignia. A kind of cross in a square.
Sassenach
Saxon is also called "Sassen" in Low German. The Scottish word "Sassenach" is an English loanword that was used in the 21st century by Scots or originally English-speaking Scots as an idiom, used jokingly about the English. Derived from the Gaelic-Scottish word "Sasannach" (old spelling: Sasunnach).
The name "England" in "Gaelic" language is "Sasann" (older spelling: Sasunn, plural form: Sasainn and of course Sasannach formed with a common adjective suffix ach-) which means "English" in reference to people and things. The Irish word "Sasanach" for an English person (with Sasana meaning English) has the same derivation.
Are these encounters just due to random accidents or are they some kind of obvious historical traces?
Scythians
According to Iranian researcher Dr. Zoroasht Sotoudeh, the word "Saxon" means "son of Sackeh". Sake or "Saka" (Scythian) were an Indo-European or Iranian tribe with many branches that lived in the east and northeast of Iran. Parthians (Ashkanians) and Kurds are among these family branches. The origin of the Germanic family also was Sake.
At the time of the drying up of the Kerman and Sistan regions in the southeast of Iran, as well as the pressure of the Mongoloid and Turkish tribes in the northeast of Iran, they migrated towards the north and settled in Northern Europe on their way. "Vikings" were another branch of these families who settled in Scandinavia and then settled in Germany and other regions of Europe.
Of course, some researchers have recently proposed that the migration process of Aryans started from Iran due to drought and they returned to the same routes in the next waves of migration, but again due to the pressure of the yellow-skinned tribes and the so-called Turks, the Aryans repeated the initial route again.
Sassanids were Sake
Dr. Sotoudeh further adds that "even the Sassanids were Sake" and in my opinion, a proof for this claim can be that the language of the Sassanids was Pahlavi like the Parthians (Ashkanians) and not Avesta like the Achaemenids (Persians).
Of course, it should not be forgotten that the Parthians dominated the whole of Iran for about five hundred years and may have penetrated their language in the Sassanid areas because of this dominance.
But on the other hand, it seems that the Parthians were not much in search of written works and written cultural influence. Therefore, if Sassanids being Sake is true, it is more likely that there may be some kind of kinship between Sassanids and Sasanech or English.
Power mafia in the world
There is another possibility, parallel to the previous possibilities, and that is that we know that some kings and nobles of Iranshahr had kinship relations with the Roman court and aristocracy, and in this way, it can be imagined that despite of the rivalry between Iranshahr and Rome, the aristocracy on both sides formed a common bureaucratic body.
On the other hand, the uprising of Mazdak and the suppression and defamation of that uprising by the nobles of Iranshahr could have prepared the foundations for the emphasis on spread of Islam, and those nobles who had a kinship relationship with the Romans, took refuge in Rome and later colluded with their other relatives, the Scythians of Europe, due to the decline of Rome and maintained the power mafia in the world.
A reference: Saxons





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