TY - JOUR

T1 - Fars white background carpet with motifs of Zāmyād and Tištar gods or Khidr and Elijah

T2 - carpet motifs of Zāmyād and Tištar

AU - Pashootanizadeh, Azadeh

PY - 2023/7

Y1 - 2023/7

N2 - According to the background color, the "Arab-Jinni" Persian carpets are divided into two main categories; white and blue. This type of carpet contains various motifs of animals, plants, and creatures that are called "jinn". The main feature of these carpets is the lack of a predetermined /mind-weaving plan. The only common visual element in all the carpets of "Arab-Jinni" is the goddess Venus. The image of the "King of the Jinni" is specific to the blue (dark and light) background carpets. But the white background carpets have other features and patterns; because, in addition to the multiplicity of the role of the goddess Venus compared to her blue counterpart, a lady with a brown skirt with colorful beads and a blue top is standing around the goddess Venus, who is the goddess Aštād and the helper of the god Tištar. Identifying the man/men wearing green and blue as the companions of the goddess Aštād is one of the necessities of this research. According to Zoroastrian religious texts, the man/men are Zāmyād and Tištar gods, who were renamed Khidr and Elijah in the Islamic periods of Iran. Sometimes the absence of man/men wearing green and blue clothes has been replaced by the symbolic motifs of Tištar / Elijah and Zāmyād /Khidr in the formof a flowing river and plants in the center of the carpet. The white "Arab-Jinni" carpet is one of the astronomical carpets that remind the chronology and times of the creation of the earth and plants. Using library sources, the research was done with a comparative and descriptive-analytical approach.Keywords: "Arab-Jinni" Fars Carpet, White Background, Goddess Aštād, Zāmyād and Tištar Gods, Khidr and Elijah.

AB - According to the background color, the "Arab-Jinni" Persian carpets are divided into two main categories; white and blue. This type of carpet contains various motifs of animals, plants, and creatures that are called "jinn". The main feature of these carpets is the lack of a predetermined /mind-weaving plan. The only common visual element in all the carpets of "Arab-Jinni" is the goddess Venus. The image of the "King of the Jinni" is specific to the blue (dark and light) background carpets. But the white background carpets have other features and patterns; because, in addition to the multiplicity of the role of the goddess Venus compared to her blue counterpart, a lady with a brown skirt with colorful beads and a blue top is standing around the goddess Venus, who is the goddess Aštād and the helper of the god Tištar. Identifying the man/men wearing green and blue as the companions of the goddess Aštād is one of the necessities of this research. According to Zoroastrian religious texts, the man/men are Zāmyād and Tištar gods, who were renamed Khidr and Elijah in the Islamic periods of Iran. Sometimes the absence of man/men wearing green and blue clothes has been replaced by the symbolic motifs of Tištar / Elijah and Zāmyād /Khidr in the formof a flowing river and plants in the center of the carpet. The white "Arab-Jinni" carpet is one of the astronomical carpets that remind the chronology and times of the creation of the earth and plants. Using library sources, the research was done with a comparative and descriptive-analytical approach.Keywords: "Arab-Jinni" Fars Carpet, White Background, Goddess Aštād, Zāmyād and Tištar Gods, Khidr and Elijah.

M3 - Journal article

VL - 11

SP - 134

JO - Journal of Religious Research

JF - Journal of Religious Research

SN - 2538-4562

IS - 21

M1 - 21

ER -