Submitted NameRevisions Save Gender Masculine Usage Persian Mythology Scripts ساسان(Persian) Other Forms FormsSāsān Edit Status Status [show contributorshide contributors] Added 10/18/2014 by LMS Edited 1/17/2016 by LMS Meaning & History Considered the eponymous ancestor of the Sasanians, was "a great warrior and hunter" and a Zoroastrian high priest in Fars and living sometime near the fall of the Arsacid Empire.