Role of Nature in Creation of Iranian Myths

Abolghasem Dadvar,Roya Rouzbahani

doi:10.5539/ass.v12n6p123

Abstract

Nature has always been an important element of myths and religions and had a different standing within ideologies. Because various factors have been involved in creation of myths, this research aims to clarify the role of nature in creation of Iranian myths. Generally, the structure of Iranian myth is a kind of belief in duality of nature, in human and in the conflict forces existing in the world which best are expressed in the continued conflict between good and evil forces. Iran is a country with varied natural geography and can be called the land of great conflicts, so this paper aims to investigate the role of nature in the creation of Iranian myths and determine the effective natural and mythological forces. Data gathered by the documentary method and the research was performed by a descriptive, adaptive and analysis method. According to the results, this research concludes that natural elements play a significant role in the Iranian myth.llected through library-field. The subjects in this study consist of Payame Noor University staff of Hormozgan province. In this study, 54 staff of Bandar Abbas Payame Noor University were selected through random sampling. After gathering the required data through knowledge management questionnaire, knowledge management processes were measured based on the five dimensions such as the capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. In order to provide for the reliability of the questionaire cronbachs alpha was used. In order to check the significance of the difference between responses descriptive and inferential statistics such as regression, one way anova and t test were run using SPSS version 20. The result show that the staff means score of knowledge management was 76/66±20/48. The result shows that there was a significant relationship between social capital and knowledge management. Also there was a significant relationship between social capital and the five components of knowledge management such as capture of knowledge, acquisition of knowledge, transmission of knowledge, creation of knowledge and application of knowledge. Also there was a significant relationship between human capital and the component of knowledge management.

Highlights

Knowledge about myths can be very useful from the aspects of access to the basis and origin of limiting factors of mind and social behaviors or the stimulating and encouraging factors in the present time
Because various factors have been involved in creation of myths, this research aims to clarify the role of nature in creation of Iranian myths
The structure of Iranian myth is a kind of belief in duality of nature, in human and in the conflict forces existing in the world which best are expressed in the continued conflict between good and evil forces

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Knowledge about myths can be very useful from the aspects of access to the basis and origin of limiting factors of mind and social behaviors or the stimulating and encouraging factors in the present time. Knowing about the roots of thoughts, imaginations or beliefs can help us getting a kind of freedom. The rich wealth of Iranian legend and myth has been passes on for thousand years of civilization. The ancient artistic works are proper source of Iranian myths. The most important Iranian myth source is Avesta, the sacred book of Zoroastrian. Only one fourth of the original book that is used in religious rite is accessible for us. From the Persian sources, we can refer to Ferdowsi’s Shahnama which is the main source of Iranian mythological and epic narrations. Figures remained from Achaemenid, Arsacid, and Sassanid empires on the walls, coins, and dishes which show a picture of past gods and heroes with some texts about them, a key for texts with the mythical topics

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