Hooshang, discovers fire and its many potential benefits. Then he worships through this precious element to God. This is the beginning of many professions and people start to live a more comfortable life under his rule and wisdom. He then makes canals to bring water near human dwellings. The very day he discovered the fire remains a holly fiest, the fiest of Sadeh, as a legacy of King Hooshang.

Today Dr. Parviz Varjavand passed away. He will be missed by all of us...

Shahnameh Podcast is now being broadcasted by "Radio Zamaneh" a web based radio broadcasting from Amsterdam. Shahnameh Podcast is a part of "Jong e Seda" programme. You can listen to it on Wednesdays at 19:30 then 1:30 then 7:30 (Thursday) then 13:30 (Thursday). Radio zamaneh is accessable via: http://www.RadioZamaneh.com or ماهواره: هات برد ۲ نام کانال: Radio Zamaneh زاويه آنتن: ۱۳ درجه شرقی فرکانس پخش:12475.5 مگاهرتز پولاريزاسيون افقی Symbol rate: 27.5 FEC: 34 Modulation type: QPSK Bitrate, KBit/s: 128 PID: 660 Indentifictation in RMS system: 10657 or even: فرکانس ۶۲۴۵ کیلوهرتز از ساعت هشت و نیم شب تا سی دقیقه پس از نیمه‌شب به وقت تهران روی رادیوی موج کوتاه

Gayomart, the "mortal being", in Shahnameh is the very first king, civilization and human communities start with him. Ferdowsi does not follow the mainstream Zoroasterain story as told in Avesta. It is important to mention that there were several versions of the story as recorded by few historians including Abu-Reyhan and Estakhri.

In these two final fragments of the Shahnameh introduction, Ferdowsi pays tribute to his friend and supporter Amirak Mansoor and the second part which is one of the most controversial parts of the Shahnameh, Setayesh e Soltan Mahmood. This part said to be added later when Ferdowsi decided to present it to the great king of Iran then.

Abu Mansoor e Daghighi starts the Shahnameh in young age but as Ferdousi explains he gets murdered in a fight. How ever Young Ferdowsi with encouragement of a close friend dares continuing what Daghighi had already started. These verses clearly show evidence of Pahlavi knowledge of Hakim Ferdousi.

The verses in this section explain what the initial idea of gatherers of Shahnameh was and how were the wisdom and stories collected. Ferdowsi continues to bring his concerns and nostalgic motif amongst the verses.

More on etymology and a little bit about Heterograms (هزوارش ها) in Book Pahlavi script. ******* MP. tan- ōmand- > NP. تنومند NP. Hunar- mand = NP. هنرمند

This section consists of praises upon Prophet Mohammad, and includes the very famous verses which denote Hakim Ferdowsi as being Shia.

exploring etymology of a few words in each section starting on this program, relating to verses 1-15: [O.Ir.] xwad-tav- > > [N.P.] xwadāy [O.Ir.] -vant > > [N.P.] -vand [O.Ir.] apara-tara- > > [N.P.] bartar [M.P.] rūzīg- > > [N.P.] rūzī- cf: رزق، رزّاق [M.P.] Šāhīgān > > [N.P.] Šāyigān , hamagān

In this final episode, Dr. Varjavand explains ways of narration of old myths and stories and emphasises how Iranian civilisation has played a pivotal role in human history.