Mythology
If you can't create here, where can you? And how not to get stuck on a myth.
- All this history, what is it good for?
- The Arrows of Arash
- Let’s get Simorqanized!
- Four Saturday Soiree
- Sohrab Lives
- Assimilation Anxiety
All this history, what is it good for?
اين همه تاريخ به چه درد مى خوره؟
Creativity • Mythology • Screenplays •
by Rezwan on 12/20 at 11:49 AM
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In which we ask, what is history good for? And come up with several useful suggestions. We're open to more, of course! Chip in : )
The Arrows of Arash
تيران آرش
Creativity • Mythology •
by Rezwan on 12/19 at 09:52 PM
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Arash(e) kamAngir is my current favorite mythological hero. The guy was an archer. In a Buddhist way, he became the arrow, and he is flying still.
Let’s get Simorqanized!
سيمرغالنظم شويم
About • Words • Creating New Words • Creativity • Mythology •
by Rezwan on 12/18 at 08:28 PM
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Persian (a.k.a. Iranian) mythology is filled with fantastical bird stories. These stories are elaborate metaphors that have transcendental, universal implications and are relevant to our post-modern world. Here is a look at the mythic bird, Simorq.
Four Saturday Soiree
چار شنبه سورى
Basic Communication • Body Language • Creativity • Mythology •
by Rezwan on 12/17 at 06:57 PM
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What is this man doing?
- dodging a flame thrower;
- dancing in Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Swan Lake”;
- taking off with his rocket propelled back pack
- sacrificing himself by throwing his body on the fire to put it out and save all those people behind him;
- leaping over fire in an ancient pre-new years purification rite.
Sohrab Lives
زنده باد سهراب
Creativity • Mythology •
by Rezwan on 12/14 at 02:29 PM
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The Persepolis picture I use on the Standard Persian-English magnet kit has inspired me.
It’s a picture of my nephew taken just a couple years ago at Persepolis. At first I thought it’s nice because it shows the glorious past, the two guards at Persepolis, and then Sepehr - a boy mimicking the guards, taking on their pose in front of them. This shows a historical continuity, shows that we are carrying on tradition.
But that’s not it. That’s not what specifically resonates with me about the picture. Carrying on tradition is fun up to a point, but what really makes my heart beat, what’s more thrilling to me is....
Wake up Iran, there are new kids in town.
Assimilation Anxiety
نگرانى يا دلواپسى از جذب شدن يا همگونى ساخته شدن
About • Creativity • Mythology •
by Rezwan on 12/12 at 05:57 PM
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This site was founded by an Iranian+American who suffers, as many Iranian+Americans do, from Assimilation Anxiety. Luckily, the cure is easy!
