Volume 18 (2026)
Volume 17 (2025)
Volume 16 (2024)
Volume 15 (2023)
Volume 14 (2022)
Volume 13 (2021)
Volume 12 (2020)
Volume 11 (2019)
Volume 10 (2018)
Volume 9 (2017)
Volume 8 (2016)
Volume 7 (2015)
Volume 6 (2014)
Volume 5 (2013)
Volume 4 (2012)
Volume 3 (2011)
Volume 2 (2010)
Volume 1 (2009)
Main Subjects = حماسه و اسطوره
Number of Articles: 17
The piran of Turan and Goudarz of Iran: A Comparison of Two Symbols of Wisdom in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh Based on Jung's Wise Old Man Archetype
Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 06 January 2026
Abstract
The characters of Goudarz Gashvadegan and Piran Viseh in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh are two prominent figures from the opposing fronts of Iran and Turan. Despite their differing fates, they ... Read More
An analyzing the transformations of Fereydon's narratives from Avesta to Naqali scrolls
Volume 17, Issue 1 , April 2025, , Pages 35-54
Abstract
After analyzing the narrations of Fereydun in the Avesta and pre-Islamic texts, the Shahnameh, the histories of the Islamic period, and the Naqali scrolls, it became clear that although ... Read More
The Typology and the Structure of Qalandari Sonnet Sequences
Volume 16, Issue 3 , December 2024, , Pages 59-78
Abstract
AbstractPoets who composed Qalandari sonnet sequences (or ghazal-stories) have used the form of ghazal in different ways to express their personal experiences. One of the types ... Read More
Analysis of some of mythological, epic and folkloric themes hints of horse in Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa
Volume 12, Issue 3 , November 2020, , Pages 241-266
Abstract
Analysis of some of mythological, epic and narrative themes hints of horse in Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa Abstract Horse has been of great significance for past generations, and ... Read More
Decoding the theme of hunting in “haft piker” on the mythological approach
Volume 11, Issue 3 , November 2019, , Pages 43-62
Abstract
Abstract The mythical concepts, due to their wide extension in the depths of human mental structures, form a large part of our existential infrastructure. Hunting also constitutes a ... Read More
Archetype of Martyred God: The Mythical Image of Mirza-ye Jangali’s Revolt in the Poetry of Guilani Poets
Volume 10, Issue 4 , February 2019, , Pages 23-42
Abstract
Abstract The present study analyzes the image of Mirza’s revolt and his character in the poetry of Guilani poets focusing on fertility myth and the ... Read More
A Study of belief in fate and foretelling in Post-Shahnama Epics
Volume 10, Issue 3 , November 2018, , Pages 47-68
Abstract
Abstract Fate and destiny are themes and motifs of the myths presented in national epics; thus, human's destiny is dependent on fate ... Read More
The Structural Analysis of Repeated Patterns of Deported Children in Shahname and Other Myths
Volume 10, Issue 1 , May 2018, , Pages 85-104
Abstract
Structural Analysis of Repeated Patterns of Abandoned Children in Shahnameh and Myths Rezaei* ... Read More
It is a Zurvanian Principle to Shackle Zahhak instead of killing him
Volume 9, Issue 1 , June 2017, , Pages 1-22
Abstract
According to Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, after overcoming Zahhak, Freidun decides to kill him twice but each time the holy Sorush prevents Freidun from doing so. Instead the holy Sorush orders ... Read More
Disappear of Bahrāme Gōr
Volume 8, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 27-60
Abstract
In epic- mythological, ritual and historical narrations there are many examples of kings, heroes, saints etc who--after going into a cave, well, pit, grave, underworld etc--ascend, ... Read More
Reflection of "Vāyu" 's function among national epic poems
Volume 8, Issue 1 , June 2016, , Pages 131-156
Abstract
Vāyu is one of the most mysterious Indo-Iranian gods that despite other gods of the Mazdāyasnā religion, conceptualizes the dual confrontation of life and death. Mention has been ... Read More
Recognition of Siavash's story based on a psychoanalytic -Literary opinion: Siavash, the victim of a consciousness transition of Iranian people from the Instinct - based Provisions of the King (With
Volume 7, Issue 4 , April 2016, , Pages 97-116
Abstract
This study proposes a literary-psychoanalytic theory built upon Freud's paradigm. In short, through a psychoanalytic criticism of the story of Siavash, researchers try to find out whether ... Read More
Mythic structure analysis "wind" in the Shahnameh
Volume 7, Issue 3 , December 2015, , Pages 153-170
Abstract
Wind, the powerful and invisible force of nature, to which a large part of ancient Iranian mythology is allocated, is known by such names as "Wāy" or "Wāyu", "Wāt", "Wātah", etc. ... Read More
Frēdōn the farmer, Kaveh iron-maker, and Dahāg the Dēw
Volume 7, Issue 1 , May 2015, , Pages 1-28
Abstract
Among those who have researched on Shāhnāmeh, Alī Hasūrī and after him Ahmad Shāmlū, believe that Ẕahāk, in order to construct a communist classless society, kills Jam who, ... Read More
The Archetypal Analysis of the Story of Keykavous Attack in Mazandaran
Volume 5, Issue 4 , July 2014, , Pages 151-176
Abstract
Myth has close relations with literature and mythical concepts and foundations have been always present and have had different forms in poems, stories and narratives and so on. Young ... Read More
The myth of the birth of Zurvan; the passage from matriarchy to patriarchy and its reflection in Shahname
Volume 6, Issue 1 , June 2014, , Pages 27-54
Abstract
One of the ancient religions which seems to be originated from Zarathustra in the Achaemenid era is Zurvanism. In this era, thinking about the first two gods, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, ... Read More
Garshasb; the Asadi’s epic semi-hero
Volume 6, Issue 3 , February 2014, , Pages 93-116