This includes their Indo-European pagan religion prior to them converting to Islam, as well the local myths, legends and folklore that they produced after becoming Muslims.
[6][7][8] In the writings of the 10th-century Arab historian Al-Masudi, the Kurds are described as the offspring of King Solomon’s concubines engendered by the demon Jasad.
According to one version of the legend, the Milan settled in Dêrsim, but Sultan Selim ordered some to sedentarize and build houses, and others to nomadize southward.
[12] Descendants of Kaveh's Army Zahak, who is named Zuhak by the Kurds,[13][14] was an evil Assyrian king who conquered Iran and had serpents growing from his shoulders.
Kaveh is said to have then set fire to the hillsides to celebrate the victory and summon his supporters; spring returned to Kurdistan the next day.
[20][21][22] The Sasanian king Khosro II Parvez is highly esteemed in the Kurdish oral tradition, literature and mythology.
It is also believed that these people, like Kawe the Blacksmith who took refuge in the mountains over the course of history, later they were called by the profession of their ancestor and created a Kurdish ethnicity.