The Meaning of Colour in the Third Book of Dinkard

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Golfam Sharifi ¹ (Ph.D. in Culture and Ancient Languages of Iran, Assistant Professor, ICHTO, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2023-07-02 Accepted : 2023-07-02 Published : 2014-08-23

Keywords: Colour, Time, Dinkard, Erān-šahr, Spanāg Mēnōg, Gannāg Mēnōg,

Abstract :

The word of colour has two meaning: real and metonymy. The usage of the word “colour” in metonymic and allegoric concepts causes the increase of this word’s comment. It is used in the folklore as stories, expressions and legends. In this research, the word “colour” is being studied in three chapters (27, 28, and 29) of the third book of Dinkard in the combination of “the colour of time” and “the colour of “Erān-šahr”. These three chapters are the complicated philosophical texts in the middle Persian and are referenced to its transcribed text and its Persian translation. At the end, we find that the author of the third book of Dinkard had used this word in its symbolic meaning. So the text becomes attractive to the readers.