From: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Subject: Re: Shah-nama Ferdawsi
Reply-To: zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz)
Organization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:46:02 GMT

Ba Drood bar Doostan:

Here is part VI of my posting.  Starting this episode, I begin going
over stories of Shah-nama.


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(Part VI)

Feraydoon killed Zahak, and Kaveh Ahangar chose Feraydoon as the king of
Iran.  Feraydoon married with Zahak's daughter (where Salm and Toor were
two sons from this wife) plus with an Iranian girl (Iraj was from this
wife).  Later, Faraydoon divided his country between three sons, where
Iran was given to Iraj.  As I mentioned before, Salm and Toor were upset
about this division.  They were upset due to the fact that Iran was the
most prosperious land compare to what they have got.  Although Feraydoon
was tried to be fair, "greet" (Aaz) and why "he got better part than me"
(Rashk) were all over these two sons.  They killed Iraj unfairly while
he wanted to talk with two brothers.  This sad incident made
"Manoochehr" invade Tooran territory and made two countries to be enemy
for centuries.

Afrasiab was Tooran's leader (Shah-Nama stated that these guys were
Turks (I mean Tooran), where this is not correct according to some work
by researchers.  Turks immigrated to these lands during the Sassanid
dynasty and since Ferdawsi wrote Shah-Nama some centuries later, he
referred them as Turks).  Anyway, Afrasiab had two brothers; Agh-Ris and
Gar-Sioz.  First helped Iranian and opposing the war and was killed by
Afrasiab persoanlly.  The second one was evil like Afrasiab and later he
caused Siavash to be killed.

Key-Kavoos and Key-Khosroo (Key-Kavoos's grand grand son) invaded with a
great army to Gang-Dezh (I am not sure where this is, I will find out
later, somewhere in present Central Asia) and Afrasiab fled toward the
Rezaieh lake.  Givve and Godarz were passing from that lake a while
later and a stranger told them about Afrasiab sanctury (Afrasiab was now
hidden inside the lake so he would not be seen by these two).  This
happen some years later and the name of this lake was Khan-Jest.  These
two abruptly moved toward "Azar-Ghashsb Atashkadeh" which was not too
far from this lake and told their stories to Key-Kavoos and Key-Khosroo.
 They took Afrasiab's brother (Gar-Sioz who was captured in the recent
war) and started to torture him next to lake and asked Afrasiab to give
up.  He finally did so.  They were both got killed and they finally got
the revenge for Siavash's death..

In Avesta, Afrasiab was named "Mairia" meaning murderer and deserve to
die.  Another note, Feraydoon was a fair man and even when he divided
his territory between three sons, he was again try to be as fair as
possible.  But at the end, Iraj was killed and farydoon himself killed
his other two sons, and now he was sitting in front of the heads of his
three sons and cry.  All for what, for "Azz va Rashk".  Consider this
human's characteristic even today.  This is a very simple example that
how rich Shah-Nama is.


(To be continued)