The Analysis of Symbolic Allegories of Horse in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh
Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature
hasan
tajikmohamdiyeh
1
(islamic AZAD University Kahnooj)
ata mohammad
radmanesh
2
(Professer of the Persian language and literature,
Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch-Iran)
Mehrdad
Chatrayi
3
(Assistant Professor of Persian language and Literature, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran)
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Abstract :
The horse in Persian literature and culture has a special position. In Avesta text and ancient Persian literature the horse has been praised. The Iranian poets, sufists, wits, intelligent, kings, leaders, warriors, farmers, battalion, and religious messengers considered it as the symbol of fortune, luck, wisdom, and sharpness. The presence of horse in culture and ancient history of Iran Has been presented in the different images that inscriptions, silver and golden tablets, engraved stones of Achaemenian era This is the importance and special attention to this beautiful and mythological animal and on the earthen tablets of Dariush’s era also have been presented names of great horses of the country of Iran The horse also has special position in the Islamic culture. In the epical, ancient and mythological narratology-which guarantee hero’s adventure and the future events- the horse has the most important symbolic animal usages Which like all none human elements of mythological world, has got a human identification and its symbol only can Be studied in the ancient texts. For analyzing of the rule of this animal in developing the hero’s position, symbolic and mythological horses’ position In the narratology of heroes’ mythological lives which are in the different cultures and tribes we have some more similar samples that are always being considered. Personnifying horses and dedicating allegorical roles to them, Hakim Abulqasem Ferdowsi contributed to attraction and value of most of his Shahnameh stories.
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