Studying Reflection Of The Creation Myth In One Thousand and One Nights book

One Thousand and One Nights is one of the richest folk treasures in Iran and it has many mythical themes.It became clear after analyzing the main narrative of One Thousand and One Nights in this research that this narrative can be a symbolic representation of the creation myth in Iran and many other mythical themes; as the triennial massacre of women shows the three-thousand-year-long raid of the Devil into the territory of Ahura Mazda, and sacrificing Keyumars and Gavaevodata, and the birth of children from Shahryar's sperm, which represents the renewal of life after sacrificing. Women betraying Shahryar and provoking his evil temper to kill women reminds Jahi in the creation myth, who makes Devil (Ahriman) awaken with his snort and causes the filthiness and termagancy in the world (Giti). On the other hand, Scheherazade also postpones her death in her stories in One Thousand and One Nights as in the myth of creation, Zaravan postponed the death of Keyumars for thirty years And else. which seems at least the origin of the main narrative of One Thousand and One Nights is Iranian according to mentioned cases