The Moon-Faced Beauty and the Sun-Faced Bride: Persian Folktale of Kindness and Justice
Across the arid lands of Persia, where dawn poured gold over mountains and the moon glimmered on silver sands, there once lived a man with two daughters, one his own and the other his late wife’s child. The elder was called the Moon-Faced Beauty, for her complexion glowed like moonlight. The younger, the Sun-Faced Bride, was radiant as the morning
