Document Type : Original Article
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Urmia University
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Mehrdad Bahar believed that Siavash's narration was taken from the Mesopotamian narration of Tammuz or Damozi. According to him, Siavash plays the role of a plant god. In this article, another version of the Vedic traditions, namely the story of Agni, the god of fire, is proposed as the basis of the story of Siavash. Siavash in the Iranian narrative is a derivative of Vedic Agni. Just as Agni is the son of Diaos and Prithivi, the gods of the sky and earth, Siavash is also the son of Kavus as the representative of Diaos, the god of the sky, and his mother from Turan, the earth, as the representative of the mother of the earth and the female god of fertility. Siavash, like Agni, the god of fire, is reborn with every death and blackout. Just as Kerchmer said that the birth of fire from mother earth causes the death of the mother, the birth of Siavash also follows the death of his mother. The fire in most of the dreams of Siavash and others in Ferdowsi's report always represents Siavash himself. Siavash's departure from Iran to Turan is another interpretation of the descent of Agni, the god of fire, from his fatherland, the sky, to the earth as his motherland. The death of Siavash and the growth of Siavashan's blood plant from his blood is an interpretation of the extinguishing of human fire and rebirth in the form of plant fire or (urwᾱziṧta) in the so-called Mazdisani texts.
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