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 reigns and adventures of, among others: Key Khosrow Siyavush Goshtasp Esfandiyar Darius Alexander, and Bahram Gur.The death of Sohrab by his own father, Rostam.The reign of Rostam for 300 years, during which he overcomes seven heroic trials and many demons, marries Tahmina.The rule of Zahhak the evil Serpent King who is finally killed by the blacksmith.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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