Tahmina, the King's daughter has heard about Rostam and fallen in love with his description. Rostam goes to the King of Samangan for help. Rakhsh is caught by Turkish horsemen while Rostam is asleep. They capture the White Demon and cut out his liver. Rostam waits until dawn comes and the demons fall asleep. The White Demon: King Kavus's castle is besieged by demons. All the families agree to their marriage, which overcomes the negative influence of the past. Zal doesn't wish to hurt her and so they use a rope instead.(The subject of many many paintings.) They promise each other their hearts and can love no other. (Zahhak grows a serpent on each of his shoulders which must be fed with human brains.)ĭespite these obstacles they vow to meet, Rudabeh offering to let her hair down Rapunzal like from her tower so that Zal can climb up and see her. And Zal is equally worried, for Rudabeh is an ancestor of the evil serpent King Zahhak. Rudabeh hears equal praise of Zal and his "mammoth strength." They meet, but Rudabeh friends tease her about falling for a man with white hair brought up in a bird's nest. Zal hears a description of Rudabeh, daughter of Mehrab, who has "lashes like raven's wings.the moon.her face". Zal doesn't want to leave the Simorgh, but she gives him one of her feathers and tells him if he is ever in trouble he must burn the feather and she will come to his aid. He finds his son a grown handsome young man, well brought up by the bird. Sam feels remorse and sets out to the Alborz mountains to see if his son might still be alive. Some years later King Sam is reminded in a haunting dream how badly he has behaved towards his son. She carries the baby to her next and brings him up as her own. Zal is found by the magical Simorgh, the phoenix like bird with red and gold feathers who has her nest on the summit of the mountain. Sam thinks his son is either an old man or a demon and orders the baby to be taken to the foothills of the Alborz mountains and left there. The story of ZalĪ son, Zal, is born to King Sam but the baby has hair as white as snow. This theme of fathers and sons reoccurs throughout the epic. This is the story of four generations, of fathers and sons, courage and skill, love and honour, war and grief, and of fathers making mistakes – sometimes putting their mistakes right, sometimes forgetting. Their son Rostam married Princess Tahmina. Their son Zal married Princess Rudabeh, daughter of the King of Karbol.
The reign of Jamshid for 700 hundred years.Opens with a cosmography and the creation of the world out of nothing.
The epic can be roughly divided into three parts: the first part tells of the mythical creation of Persia and its earliest mythical past the second part tells of the legendary Kings and the heroes Rostam and Sohrab the third part blends historical fact with legend, telling of the semi-mythical adventures of actual historical Kings. The Shahname, literally meaning 'Book of Kings,' is structured according to the mythical and historical reign of 50 Persian Kings. "The houses that are the dwelling of today will sink beneath shower and sunshine to decay but storm and rain shall never mar the palace that I have built with my poetry." Ferdowsi
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