The Analytical Comparison of Siavash, Osiris and Attis

Subject Areas : شعر

Mahmoud  Rezaee Dashte Arzhaneh ¹ (Faculty Member, Islamic Azad University, Dashte Arzhaneh Branch)

Received: 2012-09-19 Accepted : 2012-09-19 Published : 2010-05-01

Keywords: myth, اسطوره, یونان, Greece, Fertility Gods, Plants, Siavash, Osiris, Attis, Rome, سیاوش, خدایان بارورى و نباتى, اوزیریس, آتیس, روم,

Abstract :

In the passionate and poetic story of Siavash in “Shah Name” only the surface structure of the story could be observed although the remains of his fruitful original myth could be pointed out in the rest of “Shah Name”. Siavash is in fact the Iranian God of Fertility of the plants who has been represented as a prince because of his failure in the myth. The present article is an analytic comparison of Siavash with Osiris and Attis. The results of the research show that the mentioned gods have certain similarities. All three have direct relation with nature and its luxuriance. All three have a goddess with affiliated with them, namely Sudabeh, Isis and Sibil who prepare the ground for their death and resurrection (winter and spring). And every year this death and resurrection is repeated for more fertility of nature.