Quarterly Scientific-Research Goljaam

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The common element in the Persian Shiri carpets is lion, sometimes accompanied with Sword and full or half sun. Sword is a symbol of power & war and Sun is a symbol of Imam Ali (PBUH). In addition to lion and sun, pictures of lion-cow-attack, with their ancient history in Iranian art, are represented in Fars’ Shiri carpets in other methods. For this reason, calendar, changes of seasons & Star Circuits are factors affecting on symbolism of each period.

Solar gods & goddesses or Water gods & goddesses have symbols in sky & earth, representing their divine form, in relation with concepts like movements of stars and planets (sun, Venus, Mercury, and Mars) and animals like lion and cow. The combination of lion and cow is specifically for the district of Fars (the third land); so is the combination of lion and sun for other districts of Iran (the fourth land). The combination of lion and sun as the representation of the forth land is another interpretation of the combination of lion and cow as the representation of the third land, according to astronomical and sidereal concordances.

This descriptive-analytic paper tries to find points of similarity between gods & goddesses in ancient civilizations, and illustrates & analyzes the roots of their shapes for finding common forms between Anahita, Mehr, Tir & Bahram through document and library research. The reason is that these gods & goddesses have retrospective effects and the heavenly representation of their duties were existent in celebrations of creation.

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The carpet "Bahram Gour and Haft Gonbad " in the Carpet Museum of Iran is one of the pictorial carpets of the Qajar period, which tells one of the stories of "haft peikar (Seven Figures)" by Nezami Ganjavi, about Bahramchr('39')s marriage to the princes of seven climates. This carpet has been studied from different angles, but the connection between this carpet and Qajar architecture has not been considered. In this article, we try to extract the architectural elements and arrays in the carpet and answer the question: What are the manifestations of the common architectural style of the Qajar period in the carpet of "Bahram Gour and Haft Gonbad"? The method of this research has been descriptive-analytical and historical, and the collection of materials and documents has been in a library method. In this research, after examining the story of Bahram Gour and Haft Gonbad, some architectural features of the Qajar era are expressed and then, the architectural elements of this era are compared with the painted images of the mentioned carpet. Many stylistic features of Qajar architecture such as: narrow minarets, onion-shaped domes, ornate columns, sash windows, windbreaks, pavilions and inscriptions, are artistically drawn in this carpet and the designer of this work has been able to show the noble Qajarchr('39')s way of thinking and lifestyle. Probably were the customers or customers of this carpet, to show and show the social, cultural and artistic conditions of its era in the form of carpet fabric. In general, the carpet of "Bahram Gour and Haft Gonbad" can be considered as an intermediate link between lyrical literature, painting, carpet weaving and architecture.