Abstract

MOHAMMADI SHIRMAHALEH, Shekoufeh. The myth of Sīyāvuš and the present legends of Bukhara. Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2020, vol.55, n.1, pp.143-166.  Epub Mar 27, 2020. ISSN 2448-654X.  https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v55i1.2583.

The myth of Sīyāvuš is one of the oldest and most important in the Iranian world and many rituals are related to it. Sīyāvuš is a deity of plants whose death and annual resurrection guarantees nature’s rebirth after cold seasons. To this day, it remains a powerful influence in Iran and Central Asia thanks to the legends that have sprung up from it. This paper describes some of these legends, collected during a fieldwork trip in 2018, and reinterprets them in reference to this myth.

Keywords : Sīyāvuš; Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh; Iranian myths; Central Asia legends.

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