Status Updates From Shahnameh: The Persian Book...

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)

اسپویلر داستان بیژن و منیژه:
بیژن انگشتر رستم رو پیدا میکنه و قهقهه میزنه از شادی تهِ چاه. منیژه اینطوریه که: ؟؟ زده به سرت؟ اگه چزی هست بگو بخندیم
بیژن: اول باید قسم بخوری که قضیه رو پیش خودت نگه داری، چون زنا دهنشون لقه بهت مطمئن نیستم.
منیژه که رد داده: خدایااا من چقد بدبخت و خار شدم که به خاطر این میمون افتادم ته چاه؛ بابام عاقم کرده، جواهراتم و مال و اموالم رو ازم گرفتن، تنم رو هم در اختیارش قرار دادم.
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دیگه خیلی وقته در حال جنگ و کشت و کشتارن. اصا دیگه یادم رفته اینا سر چی دارن با هم میجنگن :))
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