shahnameh, composed in the 10th century by ferdowsi, is one of the most significant classics of the world. it is about heroic tales of ancient persia. the contents and the poet's style in describing events takes the reader back to ancient times and makes him/her feel the events. ferdowsi worked for thirty years to complete this crown jewel of persian literature. publius vergilius maro know...

fairy tales are stories in which metaphysical, paranormal and mysterious events take place and there is no exact time and place; everything is spiritual. the lorestanian story of “daughter of daal” is a tale of the “mythical birth” of a girl from an egg and her being raised by daal (phoenix) in the cave of a caucasus-like mountain. daughter of daal is snared by a hireling hellcat’s deceit, but ...

ascension, as a recurring theme in narrative and visual arts of non-theistic and theistic communities (monotheistic or polytheistic) from east to west of the ancient world, reveals concern and urge of man to communicate with the supra sensible world. the connotation of ascension, however, broadly varies from the flight of shaman’s spirit, a hero transformation to god, and a trip to heaven and h...

This paper focuses on the mythological image, the Queen Mother of the West in Classic of Mountains and Seas, to explore the hiding history and mental reality behind the fantastic literary images, to unveil the origin of jade worship, which plays an significant role in the 8000-year-old history of Eastern Asian jade culture, to elucidate the genetic mechanism of the jade worship budded in the Sh...