PERSIAN 2704

Niassati

Nima

Where does Jamshid sit in the cycle of justice?

The cycle of revenge appears like a general theme through the
stories of Shahnameh. It starts from a stable situation that corresponds
to justice, the occurred an injustice that destabilizes the equilibrium
of all the forces in the universe of Shahnameh. When the equilibrium is
lost, the only relief is revenge. It seem that the heroes of the story
wont rest for a moment until they get to the stability through revenge.
This theme repeats itself over and over in Shahnameh.
Considering the repetitive nature of the cycle of revenge
throughout the story, it seems quite reasonable to look for the same
cycle somewhere between the lines in Jamshids story. But at the
beginning it seems in consistent with our cycle of revenge theme. In
fact Jamshid received the throne droning a period of stability. Jamshid
the fourth king of the world, both king and high priest of Hormazd and
who he is endowed with royal farr, his father Tahmures has already
built an stable and prosperous empire, occupying foreign lands (of the
Div) and transferring the foreign civilization and knowledge into his
empire. I fact as we read the text, Jamshid is only following his fathers
path and further developing a complex political and economic system.
His empire becomes large and complex enough that now he introduces
the factor of religious into his state and declares himself the kingpriest.
Throughout the story of Jamshid, it seems that we are facing a long
era of stability and therefore, it means that the, the is not cycle of
revenge during the story, since that cycle requires an injustice to
occur and destabilizes the system. I do believe that in order to find the

traces of the revenge cycle, one should focus on the closing section of
Jamshids reign. According to aforementioned details about the cycle of
revenge, it starts with an injustice that destroys the equilibrium.
When does the first destabilizing, injustice occurs in Jamshids story?
What is the sign of this injustice?
I believe that the first vent that shows us that stability is being
threatened is the time that Jamshid steps into divine realm and hiss
royal farr starts to fade away. In fact this event starts a chain reaction
that eventually leads to the bloody end for Jamshid and his throne and
results in reign of a demon-king such as Zahhak. In fact Jamshid
himself is part of the trigger that starts the injustice and eventually
initiates the cycle of revenge. This is a far longer cycle compared to
the previous ones. The process of injustice just starts with Jamshids
loss of royal farr and continues by a foreign demon king taking over
and that foreign demon king, namely Zahhak establishes a tyranny and
then after that we have the stories of Freydoun and Kaveh to continue
the cycle with their revenge.
Therefore, the story of Jamshid starts with a long period of justice
and ends with an injustice that Jamshid himself initiated it. This period
of injustice continues during Zahhaks reign and only finishes when
Kaveh and Fereydoun take back the throne and bring back the stability
to Shahnamehs world. The injustice is not to a certain person, nut I
believe that it is to Iran and Iranians.