
Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to myth, the Sirins lived `in Indian lands` near Eden or around the Euphrates River. These half-women half-birds are directly based on the Greek myths and later folklore about sirens. They were usua.....
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[Islamic history] Sîrîn bint Sham`ûn was an Egyptian Coptic Christian who became one of Muhammad`s slaves. She and her sister Maria al-Qibtiyya were sent to Muhammad as gifts from the Sassanid official Muqawqis in 628. Maria remained a slave to Mohammad and Sirin was given to his follower as a slave, the poet Hassan ibn Thabit. Hassan an...
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