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Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, On the Creation of the World, Part 4

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this lesson, we proceed to the fourth part of our discussion of the section “On the Creation of the World” from Ferdowsi's Shahnameh with Dr. Omid Arabian. This part of the epic poem explains Ferdowsi's account of the origins of plants and animals.

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0:00.0

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Shah Name us for another part of the creation of the world.

0:41.8

Small topic, just no big deal.

0:44.7

So in the last lesson, we kind of got these visuals of these elements coming together to form what we know of as the earth and the world and lightness and stars.

0:56.7

And let's get right into our next part.

0:59.1

Perfect.

0:59.7

So the last part as the stars appeared and light started to kind of shine brightly over the dark earth.

1:07.2

He continues from there further sleep in verse 17.

1:10.5

He says, Hami bar shodis, verse 17, he says,

1:11.3

Hami bar shod al-tash,

1:12.9

forud al-a-wad-a-a-a-dhajad,

1:14.7

hami-gashd gerdezamin of ta'a.

1:18.6

Let's start with the second half of that verse first, if I may.

1:22.0

So he says, the sun, or the light of the sun of thaw, right,

1:26.7

started to turn around the earth, revolve around the Earth.

1:31.3

And again, this is back to the geocentric model where we now know it's the other way around,

1:32.3

the Earth revolves around the Sun, but back then they believe that all the planets and all the stars,

1:36.3

including the Sun revolved around the Earth.

1:41.3

So he says, the Sun began to continually kind of circle the earth, right?

1:43.3

And fire kept going back to the first part.

1:50.0

Fire rose upward and water flowed down.

1:53.0

In other words, fire again refers to the sun in this case, right?

1:57.0

That kind of took its place in the sky as it started to turn around the earth, but also

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