You can buy this song and the rest of my music here: faryafaraji.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-old-iran-vol-ii A composition by Farya Faraji. The lyrics are in Middle-Persian, the chronological variety of the Persian language spoken in the Sasanian Era, and they are taken from a rhymed ballad dating to the time following the fall of the Sasanian Empire at the hands of the Arabic Rashidun Caliphate. According to J. C. Tavadia from "The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland" in 1955, while the exact date of the poem cannot be pinpointed, some estimates can be made. The greatest peculiarity of the poem is that it rhymes--as a general rule of thumb, Iranian and Greco-Roman poems of the Ancient World did not rhyme, and the concept was popularised by the Arabs following their expansion in the Early Middle-Ages. This would point to a late date for the poem, but Tavadia indicates that the use of certain, more archaic Middle-Persian words supports the idea that this poem would have been written at an earlier date, therefore it is possible that this text was produced in the very decades following the conquest of Iran by the Arabs. The text expresses the hope of the era's Iranians, who await the coming of a Zoroastrian messianic figure called Shah Vahram Varzavand, a figure who will come from India, overthrow the Arab invaders and restore native Iranian and Zoroastrian rule to the land. The poem can essentially be contextualised as a "wish-image" of the oppressed Zoroastrian Iranians yearning for the return of the previous state of rule. The figure of Shah Vahram as a messianic figure carries with him the weight of Iranian mythology, as he is said to be of the lineage of the Kayanian--the mythological dynasty of Iran who was said to have ruled at the beginning of the world, and the dynasty around which the Shahnameh epic revolves. The poem can therefore be described as both a deeply nationalistic and religious one; the two concepts being intertwined in this historical context, with Zoroastrianism being one with the concept of Iranian identity in the eyes of the text's writer(s). This is a text I've been trying to set to music since June, but the dozen or so melodies I came up with each failed to evoke the text's deep sense of melancholy; hopefully this melody does the job, as this was a hard text to grasp musically. Keep mind that both the pronunciation and the music are not representative of the Sasanian and post-Sasanian eras-there are very few resources on Middle Persian pronunciation, and I decided to go with a modern standart Iranian pronunciation with a few archaic affectations from the Sasanian era, like the "v" sound being pronounced as a "w." As for the music, no music is preserved to us from that time, so consider this piece as a whole a modern Iranian interpretation of an earlier Iranian subject. Lyrics in Middle-Persian: Kay bavâd kû pêg-ê âyed az Hindûgân? Kû : "mad hân i Shâh varhrân az dûd ag î kayân!" Kê shpîl ast hazâr, abar sar-ô-sar ast pîlbân, Ke abrâstag drafs dâred ped êvên î husrôgân pêsh-lashkar barend ped spâh-sâlârân! Mard-ê visê abâyed kirdan zîrag targumân, Ke shaved bê gôbed ped Hindûgân Kû amâh cê dîd az dast î tâzîgân, Amâh azêr, avêshân côn shâhân, Bê stad hend pâdixshâyîh î az husrôgân, Nê ped hunar ud mardîh, côn êrân, Bê ped afsôs ud riyahrîh, côn dêvân! Bê stad hend ped stahm az mardômân, Abâz harâg âst hend, sâg î grân, Az amâh bê âyed hân Shâh Varhrâm, I Varzâvand az dûdag î Kayân , Bê âvarem kên î tâzîgân, Côn rôstahm âvurd sad kên î Syâvashân! Translation: When will a courier come from India? (to say) that: “King Vahrām of the family of the Kavi has come, Having a thousand elephants, being upon them an elephant-keeper, Having raised banners, in the manner of the Husrô (Persian kings) The advance-guards are led by the generals! A man should be dispatched, a clever interpreter, Who may go and tell to India, What we have seen from the hands of the Arabs! All at once they weakened the religion and killed the kings. We (have become) inferior, they are like kings.They have taken away the sovereignty from the Husrô, Not by virtue and valour, (like the noble Aryans,) But in mockery and scorn, (like the demons.) By force they have taken away from men They have demanded again the tribute, a heavy impost. From us shall come that king Vahrâm, Possessing marvellous power, of the family of the Kavi. We will bring vengeance in the Arabs, As Rostam brought a hundred to the Syavashan.
To be fair Farya while no man has not yet come forth from india to liberate the zoroastrian people, no country that has taken residency in Iran has lasted long there are a few true but as a large part Iran has been, and will always be the graveyard of empires.
@@enclavegeneral3946 Its a rule, nothing lasts. Many empires thrived and died across all places in different times.. Empires are created but also get destroyed. Everything has an end. In Iran the Achaemenid Empire and Sasanian Empire were some really good Empires. In India, Mauryan Empire, Mughal Empire, and Maratha Empire
@@atharvamarne9187 actually most iranians especially the younger generation including myself we ABSOLUTELY hate this religion the only thing that's still keeping this country a "Muslim" country is the Islamic Republic regime , which we cannot wait to OVERTHROW then we can finally be free , it actually makes me happy that after 1400 years my generation was the one to say fuck this religion and wants the old iranian culture back.
Your ancestors proudly for centuries embraced Islam, but not this authoritarian communist Shii Imami mixed vile modern abomination which is the present day government. Look for Sufism practiced by great Iranians when Iran was the most advanced. It produced great scientists, mystics, scholars, poets, who were all Sufi and Sunni like Ibn Sina, Ghazali, Rumi, Omar Khayyam, Abdullah Ansari, Khavarezmi and so many others. Iranians when they experienced true Islam the majority freely embraced it, and they even surpassed Arabs like me because they judged the message for its own merits for they were an advanced cultural people. Because they weren't ethno-centric and close minded like many of their present day descendants. Search for your true legacy and greatness for these past 1400 years and don't buy into the propaganda of the regime or propaganda by some of the misguided of the opposition.
As a north-western Indian I'm suprised how much of the lyric I understood without knowing enough of Persian/Farsi. Not only I understood the loan words from Farsi into our language, but the cognates aswell. I wish Iranians and Indians knew how close both of us are.
Also Armenians Bro,i'm Iranian Armenian and i live in Yerevan,I started learning Farsi recently and i'm not that well by now but anyways i understand the context and lyrics because our languages belongs to Indo-European one's and very close to each other
I'm Indian. We should have heard, we should have sent that army to help Iran. Failure to do so brought the invaders to us and led to a partition of our homeland. We did defeat the Khilafat in 740, but they kept coming. I pray for the Iranian people to be free. Your defiance is inspiring.
Long Live Iran. Founders of Eastern Civilization. It irreversibly shaped the East long before Islam. Islam could not erase these effects. Much love and respect from Turkey.
This is only real patriotic poem of Iran after Arab invasion. I had across the text of this many years ago but I lost track of it. I am so glad I came across it.
When this was written and are they(Iranian,Zarustarians) still waiting for king Vahram? Are king vahram going to be Iranian decent or of Indian decent according to this 🤔
I've generally ignored the Sassanids, mostly because most of what I read, watched, and learned about that era was focused on the Romans/Byzantines, so the Sassanids always appeared as the enemy. But this song, even if it isn't representative or historically accurate, is just so beautiful and filled with emotion that I'm so going to start reading some more about Persian history.
Thanks a lot! Sasanian history and Ancient Iranian history as a whole is fascinating-I remember a book that was called "The Two Eyes of the World," and it referenced the Byzantine and Sasanian emperors. It's a very accurate description; Iran was sort of the Middle-Eastern counterpart to the Greco-Roman world, and in my experience, reading about both gives one a more complete picture of West Eurasian history
"The Two Eyes of the Earth" is an extremely good piece of history, I recommend "The Iranian Expanse" by the same author, as well as "The Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire" by Parvaneh Pourshariati, Greg Fisher's "Between Empires" and "ReOrienting the Sasanians" by Khodadad Rezakhani. Eberhard Sauer et al's "Sasanian Persia" is also good, though is mostly a collection of papers, and some of them make a few strange assertions that don't really make a lot of sense.
@@hamedpoker9976 Depends what we're talking about: the music itself isn't, it's not actual Sasanian-era music, only modern Iranian music. As for the lyrics, they're accurate to the feelings of Iranians back then, though their feelings and objective reality are two different things; we can be certain that from the Arab point of view, the Arabs didn't fight through "scorn and mockery like demons" as the song claims
This tells the story of the Parsis that came to India. As a result, many illustrious figures of Indian History have been Parsis, one of them being actors, serving in the military, and building Fire Temples in India. (In fact Tata Airlines before it changed to Air India, was run by Parsi Businessmen known as the Tatas who are quite famous in India) Such a cool community! In Mumbai they have a World Zorostrain Conference or something like that.
Before they were yazata under Ahura Mazda, they were our old gods. While technically Mithra is our god of war, Verethragna/Bahram is his agent in that regard.
They are uncivilised and illiterate beings. Both India and Iran are suffering from their infestation. Both India and Iran have been great cultural hubs and glorious which gave rise to many great people. It's fascinating how close Persians and Indians are in terms of culture
As an indian & hindu i'm so sad by knowing the fact parsis was killed / percecuted , converted them & wipe out them on their own land , as hindu we understand their pain😢
As an Indian, my heart pains hearing this and thinking what has become of The Great Persia today. Even Hindustan is wounded. We must rise again. Tyranny will end.
We will rise again. What is happening in Iran is Iran rising from its ashes again. Legend says thar Persians migrated to Iran from Hindustan. A lot of us fled to India when Islam invaded our country. In this century, you and us all will rise together to the height.
Three tracks in less than a week?!? Farya, you the man! As always, thanks also for providing the translation and story. There is a small Parsi-Zoroastrian sect in India called Ilm-i-Khshoom who await the arrival of Shah Vahram Varzavand. They have their own small atashkadeh in the town of Udvada near the famous Iranshah Atash Behram. I never knew of this poem so thanks so much for sharing, really appreciate it!
It's fascinating to think that Vahram is still being awaited to this day, thanks for the info! I'm definitely going to look into that town, even maybe visit it one day and document it, it's absolutely fascinating! Do you happen to know if the figure of Vahram Varzavand emerged as a result of the Arab invasion, like a national/religious coping mechanism if you will, or was he already an established messianic figure prior to the invasion, and was then added this new dimension of freeing Iran from the Arabs?
@@faryafaraji you know to be honest I didn't know about SBV with the exception of that Ilm-i-Khshoom group, which most Zoroastrians that I know consider to be a small doomsday cult. They were really active in the late 90s predicting that SVV would return in the year 2000 as the Saoshyant or savior/messiah but now I think they've sort of piped down and keep to themselves, though as far as I know they still have their own Atashkadeh. I hadn't seen anything about the coming of SVV in any Sasanian or Pahlavi literature that I had read until I saw and heard your piece, so thank you so much for that! Looking forward to more!
@MR map The Thing great about King Puru is he was an Small tribal leader or Some few villages king(Small territory leader),Still he was not summited to Alaxender and gave him tough Competition,At the time when every king around him Summited to Invader. Puru was So insignificant king in Indian history that if he was Summited to Invader Insted of Facing him bravely,He would have not even been mention in history. The bravery made him special 😊👍
"Find a good interpreter, send him to India, Tell Indians of what we suffered at the hands of the Arabs (referring to Islamic invasion), So the Indians can come with their thousand Elephants and save us."
The grief makes me cry Everytime I hear this I want to forget... This world is indebted to me a motherland that I can live in without thinking about saving her every day
@@faryafaraji🇮🇳 Hindú 🇮🇷 Long Live Aryans There Are No Brotherhood The Algerians Are Muslimeen Africans they support you for they interest We support Iran 🇮🇷 because They are our blood brothers
You are beyond praises. People like you are Rare. Divine gifted talent you have. Keep on creating such marvelous masterpieces, wish you Success. I liked them very much ❤️🙏
I wonder if Kayiyan or kayi is same as legendary Kavi chayamana(in rig Veda) the king who led the coalition (Alina,simyu, parsua etc) against Bharata clan in battle of the ten Kings. His ancestor Abhyavartin chayamana is called a Parthava(parthian) in Rig veda. Beautiful but sad song 🙏.
The history of Iran was summed up in disappearing absorbed by another power, the power adopts Iranian customs, Iran frees itself, becomes rich and prosperous again, and then repeats the cycle again.
The writer(s) of this song would be very proud to know that 1300 years later people still remember it, but sad to know that Shah Vahram still has not come.
I didn't realize how similar middle persian and Farsi dari were! For someone who speaks Farsi this is very familiar sounding. Most of the words are still used and known
Farya jan, I just want you to know that I enjoy all your pieces but it's just this one... I can't ever bring myself to listen all the way through. I feel an incredible amount of pain and lament just because this evokes some kind of feeling that makes me uncomfortable. It's been over a thousands years and yet I can still feel the hatred and anger of our ancestors in these lyrics. And this is still pretty tame compared to the full ballad which I've also read. I don't even care about the historical authenticity of the lyrics, it's just them expressing their feelings and justifiably so. Thank you for sharing but I can't ever listen to this without tears running down my face. Stay safe
Iran is still in crisis. Look at how many young women died protesting against compulsory Hijab. I hope better sense prevails in India and we could prove to be of some help to them.
Don't mind me, just revisiting the absolute banger song that got me into your channel while writing about Raushna I Shahanzai, Queen of Kings of the Haxamanian Empire riding into battle on a war elephant in the fantasy novel I'm writing
Love from ExMuslim sahil Im shocked, why no one from parsis community talked about islamic invasion of percia.. Although they are the reachest / brave / educated and Inflansive community of India.. Please make movie about Persian invasion , in iran there is lot of good actors and I thing they are happy to do roll in that type of movie.. And He will get world wide publicity.. because America never miss a chance to criticise Iranian Islamic regime
fun fact iran comes from the word old/ancient persian word aryan aryan from old persian meaning ´´of arya´´ short form of aryanam "The Land of The Arya" (arya being the name of the people) aryan old persian eran middle persian iran modern iranian/persian from what i remember there is a few different interpretations to the meaning of the word arya or airya the one i remember right now if i remember correctly is that it means the community or a the gathering of people
Beautiful! Listening to this is like spiritual experience. At the same time it tugs at my heartstrings, it is like an innocent child complaining of the injustices committed on him. Where is Vahram and what is taking him so long!? :(
Kalki isn't coming yet but Lord Balrama(Vahram) has born already in pawar kshatriya vansh and he is already 23. Soon he will be leading us in the upcoming great Dharmayuddh.
That certainly is the best way to learn history! I could feel the hope and tension those people must have felt. You can't get that from a history book..You're right. Epic!
This song and all the other ones you have created are just very beautiful and deep. This song is my favorite. Listen to it everyday. Keep up the good work and keep the ancient world alive :)
We indians are very grateful to say that "parsis" are one of us, parsis have excelled in the field of buisness and we wouldn't have had strong ideals like mr. Ratan Tata if the Zoroastrians hadn't migrated to our lands.
I am definitely seeing what my dad thinks of this. These are such a delight. They all are, but this stuff gets me real excited to share with my family hehehehehe
Vahram (Bahram in modern Iranian language) is the equivalent of The Messiah (Christanity), Imam Mahdi (Islam) and The Maitreya (Buddhism) of the Iranians!!!
It all makes sense why the Hindus back then couldn't help Persians. The 3 major powers Gurjar pratiharas, Pala empire and Rashtrakutas were busy fighting among themselves not realising the devil knocking on their door plundering Persia and then later Sindh.
@@bladey_0_10 after the devastating attack of Muslims on Persia, burning millions of books, killing thousands of men and selling women and children into slavery, we see a post-apocalyptic pattern in Iranian literature. Bahar (PhD, Tehran University) believes that this poem is written in middle of 7th century in Middle Persian language with influence of new Persian. The pome describes the story of Sushianth, a saviour coming from india and freeing Iran from the Bad-Dinan (Bad religioners) aka Muslims. The story of Sushianth was a key principle of the Knightley Orders fromed during 7-9th centuries Iran to fight back Muslim invasion; eg. order of Hashashins (Assassins). Anyways, this dream lived on to this day. And I'm sure we're living the final years of this battle right now! 💚🤍❤️
You need to send the clever interpreter. Zoroastrians (or Parsis as they are locally called) have their ancestral homes in the western states of India - Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. Maybe the interpreter should begin his search there. May the real Shah - lord Vahram - claim back the noble Aryan land in our lifetime. Long like Iran!
I am impressed by your music, and also by your knowledge of the ancient world. It's amazing reading the words you tell us, amazing reading the replies. With respect. Such a treasure to come upon. Very best wishes and deepest regards.
It is actually quite the same concept used after many centuries by the Byzantines with the legend of the return of the marbled king after the fall of the empire.
Very true, it's the same basic story of the king who'll return the conquered lands, good observation! I did some some research and in Sith Thompson's motif index system, which is like a collection of folk motifs from around the world, he catalogues this concept as "D 1960.2, King asleep in the mountain." What he calls the King asleep in the mountain is basically that recurring motif across the world of a hero, often a leader, who will one day return.
@@faryafaraji There are quite many side stories two. One of them is about a half fried, half alive fish which still lives in the sea waiting the retake of the capital. According to the legend a monk was frying 2 fish during the siege. When the news of the fall arrived one fish was already cooked and the other jumped to the sea . Another one is that the sword of the king (many refer to be Constantine Palaiologos the last emperor but others that Saint-Emperor of the poor, Ioannes Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicea will be the one) year after year is drawing the sword from the case. When the right time will come, the sword will be unsheathed, and he will awake from his stasis.
@@GTakos89 I really need to get more familiar with the Byzantine body of myths and folklore. Outside of Greece, we all know and focus on Ancient Greek mythology, but there's this whole body of myth during the era of Byzantium that I'm interested in learning about; I'm planning to make a series of songs about Diagenes Akritas for example
@@faryafaraji To be honest because West cultivated more the antiquity and was in great enmity most of the time with the Romans. This led the post medieval West to the apotheosis of the ancient Greeks and the ''banishment'' of the Byzantium. Byzantium is quite unexplored, as it is genuinely a competitor of the West and a claimant of classical antiquity. If you can read in French I would really suggest to you 3 writers and a few works 1)Vie et civilisation byzantines : tome I fascicule I - - Byzantinôn bios kai politismos phedon koukoules [Phaidônos Koukoule] Published by Athènes, Collection de l'Institut français d'Athènes, 1948 (folk lore and customs) 2) Helene Glykatzi-Arveler ''Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire'' 3)L’APPROCHE COSMOSYSTÉMIQUE DE L’HISTOIRE ET L’HELLÉNISME Georges CONTOGEORGIS & George Kontogiorgis, sur « Byzance sous la domination ottomane » contogeorgis.blogspot.com/2021/11/blog-post_12.html Digenes (Di-genes = means 2 genuses in Greek) which actually refers to the ''nationality'' of the hero. He was from the genus of the Romioi / Rums /Eastern Romans and Arab. He fights constantly from Syria to Armenia and to Cyprus against the angel of Death. He wears super expensive belts from Lahore and he actually is Pronoiarios in the borders (pronoia named by the Turks as timar). Well the Byzantines had an extensive literature of the ancient Greek myths which mostly influenced the heroic and epic Byzantine poems. Some ancient Greek myths were also incorporated in ecclesiastical moral teachings . Saint Basil the Great wrote a whole treatise about the Greek mythology and its benefits to the Christian youth around 330AD. What is considerably new during the era were the love poems and novels, e.g. Aristander and Kallithea (Constantine Manasses).
This is the definition of perfection,your voice,the lyrics,everything was just so perfect.man you killed it l can't stop listening to it😍 sending all of my love to you❤💐
So, this song is the Persian analogy to the Greek song about Constantine XI? Anyways, love to Iran from a Sarmatian. I'm currently reading the Avesta, and I love your religion although I'm not Zoroastrian myself.
Very similar indeed to the legend of the Marble Emperor, it's the same basic concept. And neither am I Zoroastrian, to me it's more of a fascinating part of Iranian history, much like the pagan religions of Europeans. They may be mostly gone from Iran and Europe as religious beliefs but their echoes are still felt in our modern identities :)
@@faryafaraji There are still Zoroastrian communities in Iran. In Yazd, for example. As well as in other corners of the world. I understand there's a strong community in California now. Relatively recent immigrants, I suppose.
@@faryafarajiMost Iranians may no longer be Zoroastrian in practice, to be sure. I'm not but as you point out its echo is still felt today. It could be argued that the modern manifestation of the majority version of Shia Islam in Iran today has been heavily influenced by pre-Islamic beliefs including Zoroastrianism. Certainly a case could be made that Sufism is a syncretic expression of an amalgamation of Islamic and pre-Islamic Iranian and Indo-Aryan beliefs including certain strains of Zoroastrianism such as Zurvanism and other traditions. In a strange way it gives one hope on several levels. First, the idea that nothing ever truly dies. As Medgar Evers put it "you can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea". Also this kind of syncretism and mixing of beliefs and ideas into a system suggests a more tolerant, cosmopolitan and open minded alternative to just one belief system imposing its blueprint on others and violently suppressing opposing ideas. The latter, darker and more oppressive path is part and parcel of the human condition to be sure but a syncretic mixing of beliefs does at least provide a happier alternative. Heaven knows, Iran and the Middle East could certainly use more tolerance, cosmopolitanism and open mindedness right now!
As a Hindu, we are sorry that we couldn't save Persia from the izlamic invaders. We ourselves are wounded brothers. It just makes me feel so feaking sad, that you guys trusted and hoped for us but we failed.
Moving lyrics! Of course, I'm reading the English translation. An interesting detail for me is that the never-returning Shah is of the family of the Kay or Kavi (I've seen such names as Kay-Kavus in a translation of the famous Shahname) which sounds like the Turkic/Turanic name of the Kayı tribe from a later age. I allowed myself the liberty to attempt a somewhat free Bulgarian translation of the lyrics. I preserved the rhyme and the number of lines but I actually depended on the English version: Кога ще дойде вест добра от Хиндостан - вестителят да каже, че идва шах Вахран? Със слонове хиляда, със тях той идва сам, с развети знамена, гневът му - океан. Спахбод войската води и всеки е решен да върне царски блясък в земите на Иран. Мъдрец да бъде пратен там, чак във Хиндостан, там всичко да разкаже за страшния ни срам - в ръцете на араби как страда днес Иран! Олтарът осквернен е, а шахът е изгнан, народът унизен е, врагът - възвеличен, Хозроевият праг пустее, разорен и не от враг достоен - от варварин презрян. Насила дан се граби навред из цял Иран, ала се връща скоро в страната шах Вахран. Родът на Кей-Сасан във блясък е облян, скърбящият Иран ще бъде отмъстен. Арабинът ще бяга далече, ужасен - стотици сам прогонва юначният Рустам.
I never noticed the similarity before! The name predates the arrival of Turkic tribes in Iran by centuries so Turkic influence on Iran is unlikely, but it might be that the Turks adopted the name? We know there were Seljuk kings named after Persian kings of the Shahnameh like Kay-Khosrow and Kay-Kavus so that's not unlikely, but it might also just be a phonetic coincidence. And amazing work on the translation! This might be the first time in history Middle-Persian was translated in Bulgarian haha. Bulgarian actually has very similar word-object-subject structures to Persian so I always find it very similar in its mechanics. I read it (or tried, I'm still struggling with the Cyrillic alphabets haha) and I can already imagine a polyphonic Bulgarian women's choir singing this
The translation is really good, it took some real skill and effort to keep the rhyme, and, despite using different ways to say some things, the meaning is preserved. I'm honestly impressed.
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A composition by Farya Faraji. The lyrics are in Middle-Persian, the chronological variety of the Persian language spoken in the Sasanian Era, and they are taken from a rhymed ballad dating to the time following the fall of the Sasanian Empire at the hands of the Arabic Rashidun Caliphate. According to J. C. Tavadia from "The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland" in 1955, while the exact date of the poem cannot be pinpointed, some estimates can be made.
The greatest peculiarity of the poem is that it rhymes--as a general rule of thumb, Iranian and Greco-Roman poems of the Ancient World did not rhyme, and the concept was popularised by the Arabs following their expansion in the Early Middle-Ages. This would point to a late date for the poem, but Tavadia indicates that the use of certain, more archaic Middle-Persian words supports the idea that this poem would have been written at an earlier date, therefore it is possible that this text was produced in the very decades following the conquest of Iran by the Arabs.
The text expresses the hope of the era's Iranians, who await the coming of a Zoroastrian messianic figure called Shah Vahram Varzavand, a figure who will come from India, overthrow the Arab invaders and restore native Iranian and Zoroastrian rule to the land. The poem can essentially be contextualised as a "wish-image" of the oppressed Zoroastrian Iranians yearning for the return of the previous state of rule. The figure of Shah Vahram as a messianic figure carries with him the weight of Iranian mythology, as he is said to be of the lineage of the Kayanian--the mythological dynasty of Iran who was said to have ruled at the beginning of the world, and the dynasty around which the Shahnameh epic revolves. The poem can therefore be described as both a deeply nationalistic and religious one; the two concepts being intertwined in this historical context, with Zoroastrianism being one with the concept of Iranian identity in the eyes of the text's writer(s).
This is a text I've been trying to set to music since June, but the dozen or so melodies I came up with each failed to evoke the text's deep sense of melancholy; hopefully this melody does the job, as this was a hard text to grasp musically.
Keep mind that both the pronunciation and the music are not representative of the Sasanian and post-Sasanian eras-there are very few resources on Middle Persian pronunciation, and I decided to go with a modern standart Iranian pronunciation with a few archaic affectations from the Sasanian era, like the "v" sound being pronounced as a "w." As for the music, no music is preserved to us from that time, so consider this piece as a whole a modern Iranian interpretation of an earlier Iranian subject.
Lyrics in Middle-Persian:
Kay bavâd kû pêg-ê âyed az Hindûgân?
Kû : "mad hân i Shâh varhrân az dûd ag î kayân!"
Kê shpîl ast hazâr, abar sar-ô-sar ast pîlbân,
Ke abrâstag drafs dâred ped êvên î husrôgân
pêsh-lashkar barend ped spâh-sâlârân!
Mard-ê visê abâyed kirdan zîrag targumân,
Ke shaved bê gôbed ped Hindûgân
Kû amâh cê dîd az dast î tâzîgân,
Amâh azêr, avêshân côn shâhân,
Bê stad hend pâdixshâyîh î az husrôgân,
Nê ped hunar ud mardîh, côn êrân,
Bê ped afsôs ud riyahrîh, côn dêvân!
Bê stad hend ped stahm az mardômân,
Abâz harâg âst hend, sâg î grân,
Az amâh bê âyed hân Shâh Varhrâm,
I Varzâvand az dûdag î Kayân ,
Bê âvarem kên î tâzîgân,
Côn rôstahm âvurd sad kên î Syâvashân!
Translation:
When will a courier come from India?
(to say) that: “King Vahrām of the family of the Kavi has come,
Having a thousand elephants, being upon them an elephant-keeper,
Having raised banners, in the manner of the Husrô (Persian kings)
The advance-guards are led by the generals!
A man should be dispatched, a clever interpreter,
Who may go and tell to India,
What we have seen from the hands of the Arabs!
All at once they weakened the religion and killed the kings.
We (have become) inferior, they are like kings.They have taken away the sovereignty from the Husrô,
Not by virtue and valour, (like the noble Aryans,)
But in mockery and scorn, (like the demons.)
By force they have taken away from men They have demanded again the tribute, a heavy impost. From us shall come that king Vahrâm,
Possessing marvellous power, of the family of the Kavi.
We will bring vengeance in the Arabs,
As Rostam brought a hundred to the Syavashan.
❤️🙏
To be fair Farya while no man has not yet come forth from india to liberate the zoroastrian people, no country that has taken residency in Iran has lasted long there are a few true but as a large part Iran has been, and will always be the graveyard of empires.
@@enclavegeneral3946 Like Afghanistan?
@@enclavegeneral3946 Its a rule, nothing lasts. Many empires thrived and died across all places in different times.. Empires are created but also get destroyed. Everything has an end. In Iran the Achaemenid Empire and Sasanian Empire were some really good Empires. In India, Mauryan Empire, Mughal Empire, and Maratha Empire
As an Iranian this made me cry. Long live iranzamin. May light prevail in the eternal battle against darkness.
Biggest darkness is Islam, that has killed your region/Country, otherwise Iran may be was the best region of humanity & early civilization
So ur non Muslim???
@@atharvamarne9187 Practicing Islam is a direct affront to our Iranian heritage and ancestry.
@@atharvamarne9187 actually most iranians especially the younger generation including myself we ABSOLUTELY hate this religion the only thing that's still keeping this country a "Muslim" country is the Islamic Republic regime , which we cannot wait to OVERTHROW then we can finally be free , it actually makes me happy that after 1400 years my generation was the one to say fuck this religion and wants the old iranian culture back.
Your ancestors proudly for centuries embraced Islam, but not this authoritarian communist Shii Imami mixed vile modern abomination which is the present day government.
Look for Sufism practiced by great Iranians when Iran was the most advanced. It produced great scientists, mystics, scholars, poets, who were all Sufi and Sunni like Ibn Sina, Ghazali, Rumi, Omar Khayyam, Abdullah Ansari, Khavarezmi and so many others.
Iranians when they experienced true Islam the majority freely embraced it, and they even surpassed Arabs like me because they judged the message for its own merits for they were an advanced cultural people. Because they weren't ethno-centric and close minded like many of their present day descendants.
Search for your true legacy and greatness for these past 1400 years and don't buy into the propaganda of the regime or propaganda by some of the misguided of the opposition.
Oh the pain in voice... I wish history could have been different but unfortunately it wasn't meant to.
Iranian shall rise again.
This song is like Persia itself. just when you think its finished, it starts all over again.
beautifully said
For as long as Huma circles the skies, Iran shall remain.
If this was reddit I'd give this comment a gold award, at least.
Comment aged well
Loves from a Persian, way far from her sacred land...
I am fascinated by the sense of ancient alliance between India and Persia has been potrayed by this ballad !
It's about future not past
As a north-western Indian I'm suprised how much of the lyric I understood without knowing enough of Persian/Farsi. Not only I understood the loan words from Farsi into our language, but the cognates aswell. I wish Iranians and Indians knew how close both of us are.
Also Armenians Bro,i'm Iranian Armenian and i live in Yerevan,I started learning Farsi recently and i'm not that well by now but anyways i understand the context and lyrics because our languages belongs to Indo-European one's and very close to each other
@@djpatel9616 we were once all brothers but we were separated by politics and religion. Hope it will change for the rest of days.
@@alinazari9272 how
@@fringeanomaly9284 only when few religions who separate , divide and judge humanity between believers and non believers gets deradicalized
Bhai I'm also north Indian from U.p but I couldn't understand?...
Thanks to Abhijit Chavada sir he guided us to come here and listen to the masterpiece. A true essence of History can be felt
I'm Indian. We should have heard, we should have sent that army to help Iran. Failure to do so brought the invaders to us and led to a partition of our homeland. We did defeat the Khilafat in 740, but they kept coming. I pray for the Iranian people to be free. Your defiance is inspiring.
Long Live Iran. Founders of Eastern Civilization. It irreversibly shaped the East long before Islam. Islam could not erase these effects. Much love and respect from Turkey.
Iran tarihi ve kültürüne gösterdiğiniz ilgi için teşekkur ederiz🙏.
There isn't one nation who founded Eastern civilization. It is a mix of Iranian, Greek, Arab, Iraqi civilizations, Egyptian and ancient Israeli
@@g1u2y345 There was nothing like ancient Israeli, it was called Hebrews.
@@g1u2y345 Indian? Chinese?
@@g1u2y345 Иран земли цивилизация
This is only real patriotic poem of Iran after Arab invasion. I had across the text of this many years ago but I lost track of it. I am so glad I came across it.
When this was written and are they(Iranian,Zarustarians) still waiting for king Vahram?
Are king vahram going to be Iranian decent or of Indian decent according to this 🤔
I also consider the lament of Rustam in Shahnameh to be as patriotic. I wander if it could be put to music.
@@Indo-Aryan9644 in Iranian culture sometimes they refered to kabulistan by hendovan. it doesn't matter that much. He just need to be of keyanids.
@@alinazari9272 that time there is no muslim in Kabul all were Hindus or Buddhists that is also known as hindustan
@@Indo-Aryan9644 Parsi?
I've generally ignored the Sassanids, mostly because most of what I read, watched, and learned about that era was focused on the Romans/Byzantines, so the Sassanids always appeared as the enemy. But this song, even if it isn't representative or historically accurate, is just so beautiful and filled with emotion that I'm so going to start reading some more about Persian history.
Thanks a lot! Sasanian history and Ancient Iranian history as a whole is fascinating-I remember a book that was called "The Two Eyes of the World," and it referenced the Byzantine and Sasanian emperors. It's a very accurate description; Iran was sort of the Middle-Eastern counterpart to the Greco-Roman world, and in my experience, reading about both gives one a more complete picture of West Eurasian history
"The Two Eyes of the Earth" is an extremely good piece of history, I recommend "The Iranian Expanse" by the same author, as well as "The Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire" by Parvaneh Pourshariati, Greg Fisher's "Between Empires" and "ReOrienting the Sasanians" by Khodadad Rezakhani. Eberhard Sauer et al's "Sasanian Persia" is also good, though is mostly a collection of papers, and some of them make a few strange assertions that don't really make a lot of sense.
@@novideoshereable Thank you very much for the recommendations!
You dont have any idea how much this song is historically accurate...
@@hamedpoker9976 Depends what we're talking about: the music itself isn't, it's not actual Sasanian-era music, only modern Iranian music. As for the lyrics, they're accurate to the feelings of Iranians back then, though their feelings and objective reality are two different things; we can be certain that from the Arab point of view, the Arabs didn't fight through "scorn and mockery like demons" as the song claims
This tells the story of the Parsis that came to India. As a result, many illustrious figures of Indian History have been Parsis, one of them being actors, serving in the military, and building Fire Temples in India. (In fact Tata Airlines before it changed to Air India, was run by Parsi Businessmen known as the Tatas who are quite famous in India) Such a cool community! In Mumbai they have a World Zorostrain Conference or something like that.
Vahram or Verethraghna in Avestan language was a Yazata (angel) of Victory under Ahuramazda (God) in Zoroastrian mythology
when will the king vahram arrive?
Before they were yazata under Ahura Mazda, they were our old gods. While technically Mithra is our god of war, Verethragna/Bahram is his agent in that regard.
Long Live Eran 🦁 Be Strong Aways India 🇮🇳 Got Your Back Always And Will Always Support You
Thnks Aryan bro
Beautiful. Thank you for reviving Iranian heritage. We are still suffering from their invasion
They are uncivilised and illiterate beings. Both India and Iran are suffering from their infestation. Both India and Iran have been great cultural hubs and glorious which gave rise to many great people. It's fascinating how close Persians and Indians are in terms of culture
i cant stop crying. simple , spiritual yet haunting.
As an indian & hindu i'm so sad by knowing the fact parsis was killed / percecuted , converted them & wipe out them on their own land , as hindu we understand their pain😢
As an Indian, my heart pains hearing this and thinking what has become of The Great Persia today. Even Hindustan is wounded. We must rise again. Tyranny will end.
🇮🇳🟩⬜🟥
❤🤍💚🦁☀️🇮🇳
We will rise again. What is happening in Iran is Iran rising from its ashes again. Legend says thar Persians migrated to Iran from Hindustan. A lot of us fled to India when Islam invaded our country. In this century, you and us all will rise together to the height.
Dharma will prevail brother ✊
Exactly
Three tracks in less than a week?!? Farya, you the man! As always, thanks also for providing the translation and story. There is a small Parsi-Zoroastrian sect in India called Ilm-i-Khshoom who await the arrival of Shah Vahram Varzavand. They have their own small atashkadeh in the town of Udvada near the famous Iranshah Atash Behram. I never knew of this poem so thanks so much for sharing, really appreciate it!
That's interesting.
It's fascinating to think that Vahram is still being awaited to this day, thanks for the info! I'm definitely going to look into that town, even maybe visit it one day and document it, it's absolutely fascinating! Do you happen to know if the figure of Vahram Varzavand emerged as a result of the Arab invasion, like a national/religious coping mechanism if you will, or was he already an established messianic figure prior to the invasion, and was then added this new dimension of freeing Iran from the Arabs?
@@faryafaraji you know to be honest I didn't know about SBV with the exception of that Ilm-i-Khshoom group, which most Zoroastrians that I know consider to be a small doomsday cult. They were really active in the late 90s predicting that SVV would return in the year 2000 as the Saoshyant or savior/messiah but now I think they've sort of piped down and keep to themselves, though as far as I know they still have their own Atashkadeh. I hadn't seen anything about the coming of SVV in any Sasanian or Pahlavi literature that I had read until I saw and heard your piece, so thank you so much for that! Looking forward to more!
@@faryafaraji please do one punjab and king porus
@MR map The Thing great about King Puru is he was an Small tribal leader or Some few villages king(Small territory leader),Still he was not summited to Alaxender and gave him tough Competition,At the time when every king around him Summited to Invader.
Puru was So insignificant king in Indian history that if he was Summited to Invader Insted of Facing him bravely,He would have not even been mention in history.
The bravery made him special 😊👍
"Find a good interpreter, send him to India,
Tell Indians of what we suffered at the hands of the Arabs (referring to Islamic invasion),
So the Indians can come with their thousand Elephants and save us."
The grief makes me cry Everytime I hear this
I want to forget...
This world is indebted to me a motherland that I can live in without thinking about saving her every day
So beautiful and mesmerizing ❤
Salute from Algeria to all my Iranian brothers and sisters 🇩🇿❤🇮🇷
شكرا ! Much love to beautiful Algeria❤️
@@faryafaraji🇮🇳 Hindú 🇮🇷 Long Live Aryans There Are No Brotherhood The Algerians Are Muslimeen Africans they support you for they interest We support Iran 🇮🇷 because They are our blood brothers
@@AncientRelicTales Fucking Dumbass, he was being Nice yet you Hindu Fucks can't shut the fuck up, can't you?
What a song ... again really thank you for the music.
I actually got tears in my eyes listening to this with context
Came here after watching the video of ex-Muslim sahil where I came to know about this song. Beautiful song.
Must be used in a movie.
please provide the link of that video of ex muslim sahil
You are beyond praises. People like you are Rare. Divine gifted talent you have. Keep on creating such marvelous masterpieces, wish you Success. I liked them very much ❤️🙏
Thanks alot my friend!
I am from India and I understand what this song is about 😢
I think they were waiting for help from their friends from hidustan. But nothing happen? Am i right?
@@heheye461 It actually happened. Read the history of Qarmatian 🥲
@@Yazdegerdiranyar did the help came form India for our Iranian brothers 🥲
The pain is shared universally by Perso-Aryans and Indo-Aryans alike. 😢
@@heheye461it's about the end of time. Zoroastrian believes that at end of time an Indian king will take iran with a great army
I wonder if Kayiyan or kayi is same as legendary Kavi chayamana(in rig Veda) the king who led the coalition (Alina,simyu, parsua etc) against Bharata clan in battle of the ten Kings. His ancestor Abhyavartin chayamana is called a Parthava(parthian) in Rig veda. Beautiful but sad song 🙏.
I wish our ancestors had acted upon the call of great king Varham.
BTW Beautiful music and Lyric.
Bruh King Vahram hasn't come yet let alone giving the call
We can end this tyranny of Islam. Let us join together and not lose hope. Dharma and Asha will rise again.
Believe and work towards it.
The ancient will rise again. 🙏
The history of Iran was summed up in disappearing absorbed by another power, the power adopts Iranian customs, Iran frees itself, becomes rich and prosperous again, and then repeats the cycle again.
The writer(s) of this song would be very proud to know that 1300 years later people still remember it, but sad to know that Shah Vahram still has not come.
I didn't realize how similar middle persian and Farsi dari were!
For someone who speaks Farsi this is very familiar sounding. Most of the words are still used and known
Love the vibe of this music
Farya jan, I just want you to know that I enjoy all your pieces but it's just this one... I can't ever bring myself to listen all the way through. I feel an incredible amount of pain and lament just because this evokes some kind of feeling that makes me uncomfortable. It's been over a thousands years and yet I can still feel the hatred and anger of our ancestors in these lyrics. And this is still pretty tame compared to the full ballad which I've also read. I don't even care about the historical authenticity of the lyrics, it's just them expressing their feelings and justifiably so. Thank you for sharing but I can't ever listen to this without tears running down my face. Stay safe
I'm listening to this wonderful song for 2 days nonstop. It's an absolute epic. Great job farya
Thanks alot, I'm glad it works!
Amazing how much the language persevered itself, I genuinely thought it's just modern Persian at first.
Got to thank the Samanid empire for that 😁❤️🙏🏻
Благодарю! Это волшебно!
One of your most underrated and catchiest compositions! Powerful!
what a beautiful song thank u farya faraji love u from iran❤️❤️❤️
This is a stunning and powerful song. Thank you for breathing life into antiquity!
Live Long Native Iranian Culture
Such an amazing work! It brings sorrow to my heart because I know Shah Vahram never came to rescue....
This isn't the end buddy .
End is new beginning...
Iran is still in crisis. Look at how many young women died protesting against compulsory Hijab.
I hope better sense prevails in India and we could prove to be of some help to them.
Beautiful music , it transmits you the emotions of the era. Greetings!
Thanks alot!
Don't mind me, just revisiting the absolute banger song that got me into your channel while writing about Raushna I Shahanzai, Queen of Kings of the Haxamanian Empire riding into battle on a war elephant in the fantasy novel I'm writing
Beautiful and mesmerizing, there is always a new begining,There is a sunrise after every dark night.,
Love from ExMuslim sahil
Im shocked, why no one from parsis community talked about islamic invasion of percia.. Although they are the reachest / brave / educated and Inflansive community of India..
Please make movie about Persian invasion , in iran there is lot of good actors and I thing they are happy to do roll in that type of movie..
And He will get world wide publicity.. because America never miss a chance to criticise Iranian Islamic regime
Parises are only left in India that's may be reason
Link?
In which stream of Sahil you got this song reference?
thinking if Bharat (India) helped Iran before islamic invasion things could have been much more different for you and us today 😭🫡
fun fact
iran comes from the word old/ancient persian word aryan
aryan from old persian meaning ´´of arya´´
short form of aryanam "The Land of The Arya"
(arya being the name of the people)
aryan old persian
eran middle persian
iran modern iranian/persian
from what i remember there is a few different interpretations to the meaning of the word arya or airya the one i remember right now if i remember correctly is that it means the community or a the gathering of people
This is one of the only song I've cried to, you've done an amazing job.
thank you, for keeping our true culture alive.
Beautiful! Listening to this is like spiritual experience.
At the same time it tugs at my heartstrings, it is like an innocent child complaining of the injustices committed on him. Where is Vahram and what is taking him so long!? :(
We must now wait for Kalki Avater.
Kalki isn't coming yet but Lord Balrama(Vahram) has born already in pawar kshatriya vansh and he is already 23. Soon he will be leading us in the upcoming great Dharmayuddh.
That certainly is the best way to learn history! I could feel the hope and tension those people must have felt. You can't get that from a history book..You're right. Epic!
Came here after Shahin Bhai's recommendation from Ex Muslim Sahil's channel. 💐 Love from India🇮🇳, Hare Krishna
This song and all the other ones you have created are just very beautiful and deep. This song is my favorite. Listen to it everyday. Keep up the good work and keep the ancient world alive :)
Thanks alot!
We indians are very grateful to say that "parsis" are one of us, parsis have excelled in the field of buisness and we wouldn't have had strong ideals like mr. Ratan Tata if the Zoroastrians hadn't migrated to our lands.
I am definitely seeing what my dad thinks of this. These are such a delight. They all are, but this stuff gets me real excited to share with my family hehehehehe
That’s the best
This is along with alot of of the iranian songs from your channel are the most beautiful songs and melodies that have ever graced my ears thank you
That's pretty precious writings which you have given a new life. Thank you for this outstanding job.
Amazing inclusion of the “Ashem Vohu” in an already fantastic composition and performance.
Im not saying I have listened to this on replay already 10+ times today...but I have :)
I can never find the words to describe how I feel while listening to these songs!
"LOVE" 🙏🏻.
It's a shame I discovered your works very late. You deserve more subscribers.
Persians are ready 🇮🇷🇹🇯🇦🇫 ❤️🔥
I admit that this one is on top of my playlist. Lyrics, music and vocals altogether have a very distinct touch in my psyche.
Fantastic music , great lyrics !
Santuri is absolutely fantastic ! Lovely language !
Vahram is the Iranian's King Arthur!
Vahram (Bahram in modern Iranian language) is the equivalent of The Messiah (Christanity), Imam Mahdi (Islam) and The Maitreya (Buddhism) of the Iranians!!!
Kalki of Hinduism?
@@bladey_0_10 I'm not sure, but I think so...
The Greeks, The Jews (Mesiakh) and other cultures have equivalents of him too...
We Hindus failed to save Iranians from islamic Arabs otherwise today's Iran will be different and more prosperous with zorastians religion.
Its funny how civilizations vanish and Art never dies!
It all makes sense why the Hindus back then couldn't help Persians. The 3 major powers Gurjar pratiharas, Pala empire and Rashtrakutas were busy fighting among themselves not realising the devil knocking on their door plundering Persia and then later Sindh.
This goes directly to my 8th grade lesson on the expansion of the Islamic world, next to the Akathistos hymnos... so epic!
Bravo Persian people that you fight 🙏🙏🙏
Wow this is so underrated and beautiful 😍🥰 it is a pleasure to the ears
This track is one of best your sound , Mr Farya.
Absolutely beautiful voice! Thank you so much for sharing different cultures through your music! It’s truly invaluable.
Thanks to ex muslim debates where I found this beautiful music & Story behind this poetry 🙏😘🙏
Link to debate?
Does TH-cam even allow an ex muslim community
What's the story in detail?
@@bladey_0_10 after the devastating attack of Muslims on Persia, burning millions of books, killing thousands of men and selling women and children into slavery, we see a post-apocalyptic pattern in Iranian literature. Bahar (PhD, Tehran University) believes that this poem is written in middle of 7th century in Middle Persian language with influence of new Persian. The pome describes the story of Sushianth, a saviour coming from india and freeing Iran from the Bad-Dinan (Bad religioners) aka Muslims. The story of Sushianth was a key principle of the Knightley Orders fromed during 7-9th centuries Iran to fight back Muslim invasion; eg. order of Hashashins (Assassins). Anyways, this dream lived on to this day. And I'm sure we're living the final years of this battle right now! 💚🤍❤️
I'm still waiting for him...
You need to send the clever interpreter.
Zoroastrians (or Parsis as they are locally called) have their ancestral homes in the western states of India - Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Karnataka. Maybe the interpreter should begin his search there.
May the real Shah - lord Vahram - claim back the noble Aryan land in our lifetime. Long like Iran!
@@vijayravi56 how?..
Zorastrianiam people are iranian right?
@@adityaraj2447 they escaped to India when Arabs invaded Iran
Some Indian did go to Iran but unfortunately it was the wrong guy. I'm talking about Khomeini, his ancestors actually migration from Northern India.
You deserve so much recognition!
Pleas do one about Kurds of Xorasan too!
I love your work.
My gf is Iranian, I think she would like it 🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷
I am impressed by your music, and also by your knowledge of the ancient world. It's amazing reading the words you tell us, amazing reading the replies. With respect. Such a treasure to come upon. Very best wishes and deepest regards.
❤❤❤😢😢😢 no words to describe it is simply wonderful ❤
I can listen to this all day 🤧
Love from 🇮🇳
It is actually quite the same concept used after many centuries by the Byzantines with the legend of the return of the marbled king after the fall of the empire.
Very true, it's the same basic story of the king who'll return the conquered lands, good observation! I did some some research and in Sith Thompson's motif index system, which is like a collection of folk motifs from around the world, he catalogues this concept as "D 1960.2, King asleep in the mountain." What he calls the King asleep in the mountain is basically that recurring motif across the world of a hero, often a leader, who will one day return.
@@faryafaraji There are quite many side stories two. One of them is about a half fried, half alive fish which still lives in the sea waiting the retake of the capital. According to the legend a monk was frying 2 fish during the siege. When the news of the fall arrived one fish was already cooked and the other jumped to the sea .
Another one is that the sword of the king (many refer to be Constantine Palaiologos the last emperor but others that Saint-Emperor of the poor, Ioannes Vatatzes, Emperor of Nicea will be the one) year after year is drawing the sword from the case. When the right time will come, the sword will be unsheathed, and he will awake from his stasis.
@@GTakos89 I really need to get more familiar with the Byzantine body of myths and folklore. Outside of Greece, we all know and focus on Ancient Greek mythology, but there's this whole body of myth during the era of Byzantium that I'm interested in learning about; I'm planning to make a series of songs about Diagenes Akritas for example
@@faryafaraji
To be honest because West cultivated more the antiquity and was in great enmity most of the time with the Romans. This led the post medieval West to the apotheosis of the ancient Greeks and the ''banishment'' of the Byzantium.
Byzantium is quite unexplored, as it is genuinely a competitor of the West and a claimant of classical antiquity. If you can read in French I would really suggest to you 3 writers and a few works
1)Vie et civilisation byzantines : tome I fascicule I - - Byzantinôn bios kai politismos
phedon koukoules [Phaidônos Koukoule]
Published by Athènes, Collection de l'Institut français d'Athènes, 1948 (folk lore and customs)
2) Helene Glykatzi-Arveler ''Studies on the Internal Diaspora of the Byzantine Empire''
3)L’APPROCHE COSMOSYSTÉMIQUE DE L’HISTOIRE ET L’HELLÉNISME Georges CONTOGEORGIS
&
George Kontogiorgis, sur « Byzance sous la domination ottomane »
contogeorgis.blogspot.com/2021/11/blog-post_12.html
Digenes (Di-genes = means 2 genuses in Greek) which actually refers to the ''nationality'' of the hero. He was from the genus of the Romioi / Rums /Eastern Romans and Arab. He fights constantly from Syria to Armenia and to Cyprus against the angel of Death. He wears super expensive belts from Lahore and he actually is Pronoiarios in the borders (pronoia named by the Turks as timar).
Well the Byzantines had an extensive literature of the ancient Greek myths which mostly influenced the heroic and epic Byzantine poems. Some ancient Greek myths were also incorporated in ecclesiastical moral teachings . Saint Basil the Great wrote a whole treatise about the Greek mythology and its benefits to the Christian youth around 330AD.
What is considerably new during the era were the love poems and novels, e.g. Aristander and Kallithea (Constantine Manasses).
@@faryafaraji a myth that also survived till the 1921 was that a 6 finger king would be the chosen to liberate Constantinople.
Beautiful! Your work is so unique! Looking forward for more of your great work! I listen to your music when reading history.
Everytime I listen to this it becomes better
Perfect !
Thanks Soroush!
This is the definition of perfection,your voice,the lyrics,everything was just so perfect.man you killed it l can't stop listening to it😍
sending all of my love to you❤💐
I'm super glad you like it, thanks alot :)
it is so beautiful thank you dorood bar shoma iran is foren\ver.
Beautiful song.
Imagine Vahram in this song real came from India and drove out arabs. What will history be like?
Wtf
So, this song is the Persian analogy to the Greek song about Constantine XI?
Anyways, love to Iran from a Sarmatian. I'm currently reading the Avesta, and I love your religion although I'm not Zoroastrian myself.
Very similar indeed to the legend of the Marble Emperor, it's the same basic concept.
And neither am I Zoroastrian, to me it's more of a fascinating part of Iranian history, much like the pagan religions of Europeans. They may be mostly gone from Iran and Europe as religious beliefs but their echoes are still felt in our modern identities :)
@Sawyer Cantrell Yeah I'd say most of the Zoroastrians in the world are located in India probably
@@faryafaraji There are still Zoroastrian communities in Iran. In Yazd, for example. As well as in other corners of the world. I understand there's a strong community in California now. Relatively recent immigrants, I suppose.
@@faryafarajiMost Iranians may no longer be Zoroastrian in practice, to be sure. I'm not but as you point out its echo is still felt today. It could be argued that the modern manifestation of the majority version of Shia Islam in Iran today has been heavily influenced by pre-Islamic beliefs including Zoroastrianism. Certainly a case could be made that Sufism is a syncretic expression of an amalgamation of Islamic and pre-Islamic Iranian and Indo-Aryan beliefs including certain strains of Zoroastrianism such as Zurvanism and other traditions. In a strange way it gives one hope on several levels. First, the idea that nothing ever truly dies. As Medgar Evers put it "you can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea". Also this kind of syncretism and mixing of beliefs and ideas into a system suggests a more tolerant, cosmopolitan and open minded alternative to just one belief system imposing its blueprint on others and violently suppressing opposing ideas. The latter, darker and more oppressive path is part and parcel of the human condition to be sure but a syncretic mixing of beliefs does at least provide a happier alternative. Heaven knows, Iran and the Middle East could certainly use more tolerance, cosmopolitanism and open mindedness right now!
Sarmatian or Samaritan?
Thank you for persian soul song. Persian language have alot dialects one of pehlevi wich is my leagues ❤ Samanidiy dynasty time we persian separated
This is a masterpiece!
Real treat! Thank you.
So beautiful. Really mesmerizing.
Great song and music 🔥🔥
Thanks alot :)
I felt as if its in a language i used to understand long back but have forgotten!🤷🏽♂️
As a Hindu, we are sorry that we couldn't save Persia from the izlamic invaders. We ourselves are wounded brothers.
It just makes me feel so feaking sad, that you guys trusted and hoped for us but we failed.
Moving lyrics! Of course, I'm reading the English translation. An interesting detail for me is that the never-returning Shah is of the family of the Kay or Kavi (I've seen such names as Kay-Kavus in a translation of the famous Shahname) which sounds like the Turkic/Turanic name of the Kayı tribe from a later age.
I allowed myself the liberty to attempt a somewhat free Bulgarian translation of the lyrics. I preserved the rhyme and the number of lines but I actually depended on the English version:
Кога ще дойде вест добра от Хиндостан -
вестителят да каже, че идва шах Вахран?
Със слонове хиляда, със тях той идва сам,
с развети знамена, гневът му - океан.
Спахбод войската води и всеки е решен
да върне царски блясък в земите на Иран.
Мъдрец да бъде пратен там, чак във Хиндостан,
там всичко да разкаже за страшния ни срам -
в ръцете на араби как страда днес Иран!
Олтарът осквернен е, а шахът е изгнан,
народът унизен е, врагът - възвеличен,
Хозроевият праг пустее, разорен
и не от враг достоен - от варварин презрян.
Насила дан се граби навред из цял Иран,
ала се връща скоро в страната шах Вахран.
Родът на Кей-Сасан във блясък е облян,
скърбящият Иран ще бъде отмъстен.
Арабинът ще бяга далече, ужасен -
стотици сам прогонва юначният Рустам.
I never noticed the similarity before! The name predates the arrival of Turkic tribes in Iran by centuries so Turkic influence on Iran is unlikely, but it might be that the Turks adopted the name? We know there were Seljuk kings named after Persian kings of the Shahnameh like Kay-Khosrow and Kay-Kavus so that's not unlikely, but it might also just be a phonetic coincidence.
And amazing work on the translation! This might be the first time in history Middle-Persian was translated in Bulgarian haha. Bulgarian actually has very similar word-object-subject structures to Persian so I always find it very similar in its mechanics. I read it (or tried, I'm still struggling with the Cyrillic alphabets haha) and I can already imagine a polyphonic Bulgarian women's choir singing this
The translation is really good, it took some real skill and effort to keep the rhyme, and, despite using different ways to say some things, the meaning is preserved. I'm honestly impressed.
@@boris8515, many thanks :) Фала!
Kay comes from Keyan which means king or royal in Persian.