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The Manifestation of the Aryans' Tripartite Gods' Struggles in the Borzū Epic
Jabbar Nasiri 1, Mohammadreza Nasresfahani
1- , jabbarnasiri@gmail.com
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Georges Dumézil, the French mythologist and historian, classifies all the Indo-European gods' deeds based on their sense of ruling, sense of battle, and fertility. She derived the gods' Indo-European system from the social structure of the triple monarchy, including the monarchy, army, and agriculture (formation of ethnic communities in the ancient times) and believes that the structure of the three ethnic groups in all areas of literature and thought affected their thought patterns including epics. The Borzū national epic, as one of the texts, appears in the infrastructure involving Iranians' three gods (Anahita, Ahura Mazda and Mehr). This means that the story is symbolically the narrator of the historical process, the formation of social unity of Iranian gods' triple character in the history of the individual alliance of farmers and lower classes (Borzu) for the first time in the power structure and the responsible executive positions and with representatives of the two other classes, the class of the King (Kaikhosro) and soldier (Borzu), while building the tripartite division of power in the office of the country and the third head of the pyramid of power to the front or the shape of the external enemy.

Keywords: Borzū, Tripartite Gods, Dumzyl, Agricultural, Social classes, Myth
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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Heroic
Received: 2016/02/3 | Accepted: 2016/03/6 | Published: 2016/03/6


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