Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale

Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 60 | 2024
Research Article | Immortal Fragrances. Reality and Imaginary of the Garden in Manichaean Iranian Texts

Immortal Fragrances. Reality and Imaginary of the Garden in Manichaean Iranian Texts

Abstract

The present contribution deals with an inquiry about Iranian Manichaean texts (Middle Persian and Parthian) concerning the description of the garden and its symbolic values (of peace, rest, evergreen flowery, fragrance, immortality). The aim of the essay is to provide a sketch of Iranian Manichaean passages to improve the already mentioned hypothesis of a pre-Islamic influence on the Persian literature at the foundation of its imagery, which displays the motif of the garden as a characteristic mark of poetic inspiration to feature beauty, love, mystical feeling and desire for paradisiac condition.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: March 4, 2024 | Accepted: May 23, 2024 | Published July 25, 2024 | Language: it

Keywords Olfactory aestheticGarden metaphorsPersian literatureReligious experienceLiterary imageriesIranian Manichaean texts


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