Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD graduate in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran. el.taslimi@gmail.com
Abstract
Mythanalyse is one of the theories in mythology that can be used for mythological criticism. Mythanalyse was introduced by Denis de Rougemont with the approach of text-based cultural Mythanalyse and author-based cultural Mythanalyse, and by Jilbert Dourand, it change to social Mythanalyse. In the latter approach, after finding myth in the text, they express its narrative and examine it. After that researcher describe meaning of myth in mystic texts, Also They are speaking about social analysis in mystic books, This article is based on the Gilbert Durand method, examines the myth of water in the mystical texts of Asrar al-Tawhid, Tamhidat, Tazkir al-Awliya, Awarif al-Ma'arif, and Mersad al-Ibad. This article, using a descriptive-analytical method, has finally concluded that the myth of water, among Iranian and foreign myths, has themes such as holiness, life-giving, purification, being a symbol for awareness, girlhood and beauty, fertility, fighting drought, healing and immortality, mortality, and the element of fertility. However, in the five mystical texts under study, more transcendent functions such as fundamental life-giving, profound purification, holiness, playing the role of a symbol for metaconsciousness, being under the control of a mystic, being a mystic medium, and death and transformation have been attributed. To the extent that everyone returns to two major functions for the myth of water in the mystical community, namely the supernatural capabilities of water and the supernatural capabilities of the mystic and these differences have transformed the myth of water into the theology of water among mystics.
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