The Huma (Persian: هما‎‎, pronounced Homā, Avestan: Homāio), also Homa, is a mythical bird of Iranian legends and fables,and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said to never alight on the ground, and instead to live its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth. Huma is the most commonly attested mythical bird in Turkish Diwan poetry.