Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami
The most secret and most wonderful story of Mehr is the fight with the primitive cow. Mithra makes the earth to flourish and fertilize by killing the eternal cow and pouring its blood. This basic idea in Mehr religion influenced many cultures and cults. Belief in different forms of sacrifice to be i...
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| description | The most secret and most wonderful story of Mehr is the fight with the primitive cow. Mithra makes the earth to flourish and fertilize by killing the eternal cow and pouring its blood. This basic idea in Mehr religion influenced many cultures and cults. Belief in different forms of sacrifice to be immune from the evil forces and to find blessing has been pinned to the lives of residents of Iranian Plateau thorough the history. For this reason, some people or animal became the scapegoats for a tribe so that this sacrifice would diminish the sins, pains, and suffering of people. By these actions and other dramatic rituals, people aimed at reconstruction of time and place of cosmic creation so they could find the happiness and blessing once again by killing the primitive cow. So in a large feast, they all ate a piece of the beef to transfer her power, fertility, and blessing to themselves where they found a sort of unity. This happy sacrificing became one of the themes in Persian literature and was recreated in the works of many poets and writers. Among these, Nezami Ganjavi has paid especial attention to the ritual of sacrifice in his story "Haft Peykar". By the language of tales, he points at a number of sacrifice-related rituals including regeneration, creation, rain prayer, eclipse, and war. He uses literary arrays such as allegory, allusion, and ambiguity to depict a new and interesting account of these beliefs and ritual traditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-80beb381fdbd422285318875d4d29b452023-08-02T03:44:08ZfasUniversity of Isfahanمتن شناسی ادب فارسی2008-54862476-32682015-08-017212019424Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizamimabobe khorasani0mohamad feshraki1mohamad feshraki2fozone davani3Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad Universityدانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد نجف آبادNajafabad Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityNajafabad Branch, Islamic Azad UniversityThe most secret and most wonderful story of Mehr is the fight with the primitive cow. Mithra makes the earth to flourish and fertilize by killing the eternal cow and pouring its blood. This basic idea in Mehr religion influenced many cultures and cults. Belief in different forms of sacrifice to be immune from the evil forces and to find blessing has been pinned to the lives of residents of Iranian Plateau thorough the history. For this reason, some people or animal became the scapegoats for a tribe so that this sacrifice would diminish the sins, pains, and suffering of people. By these actions and other dramatic rituals, people aimed at reconstruction of time and place of cosmic creation so they could find the happiness and blessing once again by killing the primitive cow. So in a large feast, they all ate a piece of the beef to transfer her power, fertility, and blessing to themselves where they found a sort of unity. This happy sacrificing became one of the themes in Persian literature and was recreated in the works of many poets and writers. Among these, Nezami Ganjavi has paid especial attention to the ritual of sacrifice in his story "Haft Peykar". By the language of tales, he points at a number of sacrifice-related rituals including regeneration, creation, rain prayer, eclipse, and war. He uses literary arrays such as allegory, allusion, and ambiguity to depict a new and interesting account of these beliefs and ritual traditions.http://rpll.ui.ac.ir/article_19424_84742bba389360a254db31a07413e70d.pdfHaft-PeykarMithra religionMythsacrificeHaftPeykarNezami Ganjaviprimitive cow |
| spellingShingle | mabobe khorasani mohamad feshraki mohamad feshraki fozone davani Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami متن شناسی ادب فارسی Haft-Peykar Mithra religion Myth sacrifice Haft Peykar Nezami Ganjavi primitive cow |
| title | Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami |
| title_full | Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami |
| title_fullStr | Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami |
| title_full_unstemmed | Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami |
| title_short | Iconic Reflection of Mithraic Sacrifice - Myth of Slaying the First Bull (EvagdaÌt) - The Seven Beauties â Nizami |
| title_sort | iconic reflection of mithraic sacrifice myth of slaying the first bull evagdait the seven beauties a nizami |
| topic | Haft-Peykar Mithra religion Myth sacrifice Haft Peykar Nezami Ganjavi primitive cow |
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