Symbolic description of human beings and mythical creatures in Shahnameh of Ferdowsi

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD Candidate, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Neishabour Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neishabour, Iran.

2 PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Neishabour Branch, Islamic Azad University, Neishabour, Iran.

10.22034/ias.2020.253018.1395

Abstract

Ferdowsi Shahnameh is a huge treasure trove of new themes in the form of myth and history. This great work is not only a description of kings and fiery wars and the painful expression of child murder, but more than any other previous work, it shows the first stages of creation and the evolution of Iranian civilization. Shahnameh is full of myths and legends with human beings and in fact it is a story of strange creatures, powerful and heroic human beings, special animals and plants that all represent the realm of human bio-mythology. In Shahnameh, the reader witnesses popular memories with a wide geographical landscape, customs and great heroes. Ferdowsi is not just a narrator of Iranian mythology, but he tries to express an artistic narrative of the mythical elements of Iranian history by combining myth and history. In the present study, an attempt has been made to study the artistic form and image of mythical and strange creatures based on the phenomenological school of Mircea Eliade.It seems that Ferdowsi in Shahnameh, by using artistic and aesthetic arrangements on the one hand, and also expressing the functional characteristics of creatures and mythical elements on the other hand, has been able to define the mythological, epic and historical areas of Shahnameh based on narrative and artistic features. Draw each period.

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Islamic Art Studies
Volume 19, Issue 46 - Serial Number 46
February 2021
Pages 301-326

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