Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 1، Apeil 2024 ، issue Number 95

The symbology of the four elements based on Peirce's theory in passing from myth to mysticism (A case study Manteghoteyre Attar Neyshabori, Ghazliat e Hafez and Nafahat Alons Jami)

Atefeh Badiee Golmakan , Reza Ashrafzadeh (Author in Charge), Seyyed Majid Taghavi

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This essay seeks to examine and explain the pattern of analysis of mythological symbols in selected mystical texts based on the theoretical basis of the semiotic analysis of the American semiotician Charles Sanders Peirce (1914) and also to prove that Peirce"s intellectual structure and system has the ability to analyze symbolism through myth. Based on this, we try to analyze the interaction of myth and mysticism in the linguistic field from the perspective of semiotics. We should study Manteghoteyre Attar Neyshabori, Ghazliat e Hafez and Nafahat Alons Jami.

METHODOLOGY: This research will be done by the method of library studies and the method of sand analysis, using Peirce"s semiotic theories and relying on the selected important mystical texts Manteghoteyre Attar Neyshabori, Ghazliat e Hafez and Nafahat Alons Jami.

FINDINGS: Mythological themes and themes are ancient and long-standing manifestations that have the power of manifestation and expression in other religions, including mysticism, with the passage of time without losing their original origin. Arbaeh elements are among these mythological elements that have been expressed as a two-way whole in connection with the sky and the earth while preserving their mythological meaning in the mystical poetry of Attar, Hafez and Jami.

CONCLUSION: The four elements of water, wind, earth, and fire are among these mythological symbols which, from the semiotic point of view of Peirce, have been metamorphosed in the form of new codes in mysticism, and have preserved their self-efficacy and nature by passing from myth to mysticism.

Keyword
Myth , Four elements , Pierce , mystical poem symbology.

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