Authors : Afsaneh Nazari, Reza Afhami and Mojtaba Yazdan Panah
Abstract: The Hallil Rood Basin exploring activities in 2001 (1382 Solar), announced the discovery of a civilization that could be the cradle of civilization of the East. This region in the early third millennium BC has been one of the largest commercial and industrial centers of ancient East regarding the production and export of manufactured goods such as various types of soapstone, marble and bronze to other centers of civilization including Mesopotamia. There is one of the motifs which have been discovered on the containers of Jiroft civilization which is the man-animal hybrid motif that is shaped differently and numerous and visualize some of the people’s beliefs and mythology. Due to the inability to read the inscriptions found in the excavations in Jiroft and the shortage and lack of resources of literary in this history field in the third millennium BC, the reading of these motifs is extremely important. The main objective of this studyis the reason for using of hybrid man-animal motifs in Jiroft’s works and plans to answer some questions such as the relation between this motif and the historical and geographical conditions, indigenous status origin and influence of other civilizations and even the effectiveness of these motifs in other civilizations. The research method of this study is descriptive-analytic and for data gathering, the library method is used. Results of this study indicate that man-animal hybrid in Hallil Rood, the same as other civilization basins have common roots of the concepts as a result of active imagination and symbolic dichotomy of the man spirit and thus, man totalitarianism.
Afsaneh Nazari, Reza Afhami and Mojtaba Yazdan Panah, 2017. The Myth of Human-Animal in Jiroft Artifacts. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 12: 5791-5798.