The immortal hound: the genesis and transformation of a symbol in Indo-Iranian traditions
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| adam_text | The Immortal
Hound
The Genesis and
Transformation of a Symbol
in Indo-Iranian Traditions
Mahasti Ziai Afshar
GARLAND PUBLISHING
NEW YORK amp; LONDON
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS xii
INTRODUCTION 3
Overview of canine symbolism in Iranian sacred traditions;
the hunter in Indo-European messianic eschatology and in
Iranian myth and religion; the hound/hunter symbolic corre-
spondence; the mystical chase among the Ahl-e Haqq sufi
order; Mithra amp; Mithras as hunter gods in Persian and Ro-
man soteriology, and the development of their cults in terms
of Herakles; continuity of messianic hunting symbolism in
popular Iranian Shi* ism: the 12th Imam; cross-cultural char-
acteristics of votive religious practice
PART ONE
THE HOUNDS OF HELL amp; HEAVEN IN INDO-IRANIAN
MAGICO-REUGIOUS TRADITIONS 17
The dog and the dead in Zoroastrian and Hindu ritual; the
four-eyed guard dogs along the Path of Yama; -and at the
Cinvat Bridge; the significance of the legal code, and of the
laws of purity; the sagdid purification ceremony; from the
profane to the sacred: the Hindu/Zoroastrian dichotomy; a
return to the profane: the Judaeo-Islamic tradition in Iran; the
hound as a symbol of ambivalence; the multivalency of sym-
bols; theories and methodologies of symbolic analysis
IX
Contents
PART TWO
CANINE SYMBOLISM IN TRADITIONAL IRANIAN NARRATIVE
LITERATURE: THE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES 61
1 Stray animal 62
The simple motif
2 Helper 65
Man-dog reciprocity as the basis for narrative composition;
the dog as man s protector, and as death s assistant
3 Guardian 75
a Houseguard/personal watchdog: the effects of the laws of
purity on narrative composition
b Sheepdog, farm- and village watchdog: the domesticated
dog as wild; the complex motif; the dog as guardian of the
oath, and its relationship to fire, Mithra-SraoSa-RaSnu, and
ASa VahiSta
4 Foster mother 97
The symbolic motif: the abandoned child nursed by a bitch;
AfrSsiyab in myth and folktale; the Spenta Mainyu/Angra
Mainyu-Iran/Turan dichotomy; Cyrus the Great in Classical
sources; Krsna; other Indo-European examples; ArtaxSir-i
Papakan; Zal-e Zar; Slmorgh s ambivalence; Thraetaona/
Fereidun; Aii Dahaka
5 Human Substitute 140
The dog as an extension of man; and as a mediator
6 Hound 149
Kai-Khosrow s last hunt; the king as Savior, SorQS as me-
diator, the cock as assistant; repetition in narrative composi-
tion; the symbolism of the cave; Romulus, Oedipus, and
Kai-Kavus; key themes in the king asleep in the mountain
story pattern; King Arthur; the etiological element in the
story as a reflection of cult practice; the king as cult hero
Contents
PART THREE
GOD, THE HUNTER 173
The case for an Avestan Mithra cult; the Roman Mithras;
Mithra as king and mounted hunter, the hound as assistant in
the bull hunt; the hunt as the essence of Mithraic tauroctony
leading to the sacrificial feast; the hunting motif in Persian
art; Herakles stag hunt as a thematic and iconographic
model for Mithraic tauroctony; Herakles at the Caves of
Karafto; the seven Sleepers of Ephesus; Yudhisthira in the
Mahabharata; real encounters with the sleeping king; the
Armenian Artavazd, and the Sasanian Bahram-e Gur; the
evocation of the life/death/immortality complex through the
triadic hunting configuration; Yama and Yima; the hound as
a symbol of the divided self
BIBLIOGRAPHY 249
PLATES 269
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