myths show the layers of human being's collective unconsciousness and include a  nations' symbolic and mysterious conceptions. banugoshasbnameh is a mythic verse book including mythic functions. in banugoshasbnameh, banugoshasb is a warring and heroic archetype. her functions remind the glory of   women's role in agricultural era, the era which is famed for its matriarchy and in ...

banugoshasb-nameh is a national epic poem written in imitation of ferdowsi's shahnameh about banugoshasb's life and courage, daughter of rostam. the poem, the only epic in persian literature is the central story of a heroic woman. most researchers, who have studied this poem, have focused on the presence of banugushasb in the context of epic and her heroism. they sometimes related her...