One of the most common conjugal unions in Shāhnāmeh is the marriage of Iranian men with non-Iranian women, especially the marriage of heroes with non-Iranians that is a common occurrence. In Shāhnāmeh, the prominent Iranian heroes get married with non-Iranian women, mai
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One of the most common conjugal unions in Shāhnāmeh is the marriage of Iranian men with non-Iranian women, especially the marriage of heroes with non-Iranians that is a common occurrence. In Shāhnāmeh, the prominent Iranian heroes get married with non-Iranian women, mainly with Turanians. These kinds of marriage are called exogamy. According to the symbols of Shāhnāmeh, Iran is sacred and divine land but Turan is the territory of impurity and evil forces. On the other hand, according to ancient beliefs, woman is symbol of land and the earthly world and man is a divine being who is free of impurities. Since in the prevailing pattern of patriarchy in ancient Iranian mythology man has a central role in Iranian myths, therefore, in the process of transformation of myths to epics, misogynic concepts have been added to the epics. In the present article, after considering the mythic deep-structure of epics, their patriarchal components of has been analyzed.
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