title: King Yima — Jam — Jamshid: From Mythological Hero to Literary Image
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metadata.value: Reisner, Marina L.
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:08:04Z
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metadata.value: 2020-10-22T11:08:04Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Reisner M.L. King Yima — Jam — Jamshid: From Mythological Hero to Literary Image. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, pp. 348–367.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/20018
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metadata.value: The article is devoted to the evolution of the mythological personage, ancient king, and cultural hero Yima in Persian literature of the Muslim period. With the help of translations of
  the Avesta as well as commentary and theological texts of Middle Persian literature, the work
  depicts Yima’s main creative functions as the keeper and protector of living beings, ruler of
  the world in the “Golden Age,” grantor of corporeal immortality, upholder of the cosmic and
  social order, and savior of the world from a natural catastrophe. These functions are opposed
  by the role of Yima as the first sinner, through whose fault the “Golden Age” was lost. The
  rudiments of the complex of mythological legends that have developed around Yima are reflected in Shahnama, the great epos that continued the Iranian narrative tradition of ancient
  times and the early Middle Ages. All the motifs based on Jam-Jamshid’s legends in different genres of lyric and lyric-epic poetry of XI–XIV centuries can be divided into three groups
  and they reflect the dual attitude towards this hero. The choice of a motif of a certain group
  in Persian classical poetry directly depended on genre context (panegyric, didactic, mysticallegoric, anacreontic). In lyric-epic and lyric poetry (qasida and qhazal), the circle of motifs
  connected with Jam-Jamshid are concentrated around Jamshid’s Throne and Jamshid’s Cup.
  Some similarities of Jamshid and Suleiman stories led to a merging of the two heroes in the
  Iranian tradition and even to a contamination of their roles and attributes. Sufi poets often
  used the motif Jamshid’s Cup showing the entire Universe (jam-i giti-nama) as a symbol of
  mystical knowledge.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: myth of Yima
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: cultural hero
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: golden age
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Fall
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jam (Jamshid)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative tradition
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Persian classical poetry
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semantic of image
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: King Yima — Jam — Jamshid: From Mythological Hero to Literary Image
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metadata.value: Article
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