In the vast majority of post-Islamic sources, the story of Zhahak's victory over Jamshid is as follows: after the decline of Jamshid's authority, the farr departed from him and Zhahak advanced and conquered the country, then Jamshid abandoned the kingdom and fled. For s
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In the vast majority of post-Islamic sources, the story of Zhahak's victory over Jamshid is as follows: after the decline of Jamshid's authority, the farr departed from him and Zhahak advanced and conquered the country, then Jamshid abandoned the kingdom and fled. For some time, as a fugitive, he wandered in different parts of the world and Zahhak looked for him everywhere. In the end, He found Jamshid and cut him in half with a saw. Now these questions are raised: Why did Zahak kill Jamshid in this unique way? Couldn't he cut off the head of his enemy, like many kings or heroes of the mythological history of Iran? Why didn't Zahhak hang him? Or even without telling how he was killed, it was enough to mention that Zahhak killed Jamshid after finding him. Undoubtedly, this particular way of killing Jamshid, i.e. sawing him, refers to a symbol. The present research assumes that the myths of the indigenous peoples of Iran have been influenced by the myths of the city-states of Mesopotamia, and by using descriptive-analytical method, attempts to study the compatibility of the myth of Zahhak with the myth of Marduk.
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