Status Updates From شاهنامۀ فردوسی : ٢ جلدی

"I shall keep Ardašir’s ordinances in effect with you, asking for no more than a thirtieth of landowners’ incomes..." actually I didn't even touch it but lmao, I am fairly certain that we have proof that Ardašir and co taxated the SHIT out of his subjects, e.g. in the Letter of Tansar: "the
Sāhanšāh demands of men earnings and work [ makāsib va mrdh; the last word may be muzdah "wages" instead]"

with one another by wisdom. Religion cannot do without the king, and the king will not be respected without religion; they are guardians of one another, and you could say that they live together beneath one tent. The former cannot function without the latter, nor the latter without the former; we see them as two companions united in doing good...." like damn not even Dumézil is this clear abt it in Mitra-Varuna lmao

lol in Ardašir I's long ass and BORING ASS Wisdom Literature-ass deathbed speech to his son there is an entire paragraph which can be summed up as Ferdowsi fr just looks you straight in the face and says "I'm going to explain Indo-European bipartite sovereignty" now lmao. I mean look at it: "religion has no stability without the royal throne, royalty cannot survive without religion", "They are two brocades interwoven

An etiological legend for the practice of castration to make (as it were) a royal eunuch! The only other I know of in the Indo-European world (there IS a Sumerian one in Inanna's Descent To The Underworld, and the rather different Akkadian version; these are both quite different from their IE counterparts here) is the various myths of Attis from Phrygia. A thematic comparison is no doubt to be interesting here.

من: خوب دیگه از این بعد هیچی توی شاهنامه نمیتونه متعجبم کنه.
شاهنامه: داراب رفت با دختر قیصر روم، ناهید، ازدواج کرد، بعدِ چند وقت دید دهن ناهید بو میده. پزشکا یک دارویی به اسم سکندر بهش دادن که بوی بد دهنشو برد، ولی دیگه پادشاه نسبت بهش سرد شده 😐 و فرستادش پیش باباش توی روم! بعد خانوم بارداره!! عنتر عاغا چطور قبلش خوب بود که نتیجه اش اینه که الان حامله اس؟؟

بعد از اسپندیار که با خواهرش ازدواج کرد؛ بهمن هم با دخترش همای ازدواج کرده و همای ازش حامله هم شده!
طبق گفته ی راوی، ازدواج با محارم توی آیین زرتشتی در تئوری کار قبیحی نبوده. و جالبیش اینه که توی شاهنامه، از وقتی زرتشت اومد شاها شروع کردن به ازدواج با خواهر و دخترشون 🤔

هیچ کس:
فردوسی: راستیی زال از یکی از کنیزهاش یک پسری داشت به اسم شغاد. یادم رفت براتون بگممم.
همین جا که لازمش دارم میاد و بعد هم سریع خدانگهدار.

theological motifs that Ferdowsi himself calls "obscure", like the tale of Haftvād's worm, all proves without doubt that Ferdowsi's sources, whatever they may have been, were from Zoroastrian priests: one is the sole surviving bit of Sasanian epic, the [i]Kār-Nāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pāpagān[/i], which is full of Zoroastrian themes and symbolism.

The sheer consistency of the Ardešir I epos with other epos of the "Solar Hero" in the Indo-European world, specially as it relates to the notions of "re-founding the nation" after some apocalyptic, existential-level threat (e.g. Camillus with the Gauls in Rome, Odysseus with the suitors, the Ossetian Soslan...), themes of continuity (in this case, the re-establishment of fire temples etc) and the prevalence of