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Shah Name, Tale of Zolk here with Dr. Sa'a Phajanis.

Salon, Dr. Sa'a Pah.

Salam, Leila, John.

Thank you so much for joining us for this third part after leaving us with another cliffhanger last time.

So do we want to give a quick synopsis of where we are in the story right now?

And then we'll go into the text.

Sure.

Yes.

So at this point in the tale, we are at the place where Zol has been adopted essentially by Seymourg.

Seymourg through the grace of God, takes Zol from the mountain and decides to raise him.

And last we spoke, we talked about how Somme has had just had a dream that his son is alive somewhere

and he sees him coming down from the mountains of Hindustan and he wakes up in

anxiety and shame for what he has done.

Wonderful.

And I have a question before we get started.

So how was this text presented?

Was it just in text form?

Because many of the copies of Shah Nama or, you know, current things that we think of when we

think of Shahname contain illustrations as well were there illustrations that were done at the time

were there illustrations that came with the book or how was it presented absolutely so actually

no the shahnameh is meant to be an oral an orally presented text

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