Status Updates From Le Livre des Rois

خیلی عادی اسپندیار با خواهرش فرخ همای ازدواج کرد.
جایزه ی باباش بهش برای جنگاوری و شجاعتش.

اسم اسپندیار که اومد بلند داد زدمم. نمیدونستم اصل و نصبش اینطوریهههع. برگااام

گودرز بدبخت :)))

کی خسروووو
الهی بگردمتتتت 😭😭😭😭
تراما چی کار میکنه با آدممممم. نیاز دارم برم تز یک فرد آکادمیکی که شخصیت کی خسرو رو توی شاهنامه تحلیل کرده بخونم.

I remember when I first read the Šāhnāma I was so disappointed bc it had none of the nuance, detail or psychological depth of Homer, but then I learned Avestan & Iranian theologies, Zoroastrian & of the Scythians and co, as well as how epic transpositions works and the countless ways IE storytellers went abt it so when I returned I went "holy shit Ferdowsi is a genius actually just in a different way than Homer lmao"

anyway with the Sekandar arc done, we are out of the realm of legend (the Sekandar anime arc being only 1% history, 99% a mix of more epic transposition as everything that preceded it (sans Darius III as the hapless opponent of Alexander) + Ferdowsi's rewrite of the the Alexander Romance lmao), reaching the Parthian Period, I will brush up on Parthian history before continuing or there'd be no point

Sekandar (=Alexander The Great) is literally just a transposed Freyr (yes, from Germanic mythology), it's actually crazy how Freyr-like Ferdowsi has made him - from the Zoroastrian texts he was using as a source, the natural conclusion is that he is a transposition of Haᵘrvatāt, the structural equivalent to Freyr's place in the Germanic pantheon (it adds up because Homay = Freyja and Dārāb = Njördr too, all in order)