Mandana of Media (b. ca. 584 BCE) was a princess of Media and, later, the Queen consort of Cambyses I of Anshan and mother of Cyrus the Great, ruler of Persia's Achaemenid Empire.
The name “Mandana” means: “Eternal.” in Old Persian
According to Herodotus, Mandane was the daughter of Astyages, King of Media and son of Cyaxares the Great.
Shortly after her birth, Herodotus reports that Astyages had a strange dream where his daughter urinated so much that Asia would flood. He consulted the magians who interpreted the dream as a warning that Mandane's son would overthrow his rule. To forestall that outcome, Astyages betrothed Mandane to the vassal Achaemenid prince, Cambyses I of Anshan, "a man of good family and quiet habits", whom Astyages considered no threat to the Median throne. Astyages had a second dream when Mandane became pregnant where a vine grew from her womb and overtook the world. Terrified, he sent his most loyal court retainer, Harpagus, to kill the child. However, Harpagus was loath to spill royal blood and hid the child, Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great), with a shepherd named Mitradates. Years later, Cyrus would defy his grandfather Astyages, leading to war between them; a war that Cyrus would have lost, but for Harpagus' defection at the battle of Pasargadae, leading to the overthrow of Astyages, as the dream had forecast.
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Can't see a thing, Travelln' in the dark.
Travelln' in the dar..... ar-ar-ark,
Can't see a thing, Travelln' in the dark.
What you gonna do when you can't seem to understand?
How ya' gonna feel when your woman's with another man?
Travelln' in the dar..... ar-ar-ark,
Can't see a thing, Travelln' in the dark.
Travelln' in the dar..... ar-ar-ark,
Can't see a thing, Travelln' in the dark.
What makes you think that you're ever gonna understand?
What's goin' on in the mind of another man?
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Travelln' in the dar..... ar-ar-ark,
Can't see a thing, Travelln' in the dark.
Travelln' in the dar..... ar-ar-ark,
Can't see a thing, Travelln' in the dark.
What you gonna do when you can't seem to understand?