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Culture | Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, The Story of Zahhak, Part 4

Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation

Chai & Conversation

Iran, Conversation, Persian, Chai, Language Learning, Farsi, Courses, Education

4.9548 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In the fourth part of our discussion about the Tale of Zahhak, Leyla and Dr. Sahba Shayani introduce the story of Fereydoon, who, as we already know by now, eventually kills Zahhak and rules Iran in his place. Zahhak tries in vain to prevent fate, and Fereydoon, even as a child, survives all of Zahhak's attempts to kill him.

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Learn Persian with Chayin Conversation, Culture, Therdoses, Shahnome, The Tale of Zahak, The Serpent Demon King, Part Four, with Dr. Sapa Shoyani. I'm gonna'a. I'm gonna'n' I'm

0:21.6

. Hello and a Meghii, hello and welcome to part four of our conversation about Zahawk the Serpent King.

0:50.8

As you can see, we're still workshopping that title.

0:54.0

We're going to get it by part seven, I guess.

0:58.1

That's a testament to keep going with this particular series, Sapo, so we can keep working on this title.

1:04.3

Yes, you're right.

1:07.7

But here we are.

1:09.0

The content is good, even if the packaging needs work.

1:12.8

The packaging is perfect.

1:16.0

Okay, so we're continuing with the tale of Zahok, the serpent king.

1:19.9

As we heard in the last lesson, the last episode, we've just gotten this terrible news that caused Zahub to fall off of his chair,

1:30.5

along with his serpents.

1:32.3

He fell off and his legs were dangling in the air and the serpents were going this way

1:36.3

and that because he'd gotten some terrible news.

1:38.9

So if you want to kind of do a little summary of what the news was and we can go into our next

1:43.5

lesson.

1:44.0

Yes.

1:44.9

So as we said in our last session, the magi had essentially interpreted Zahawk's dream for him

1:50.9

out of this large group of magi.

1:53.4

None of them could bring themselves to say it except for one.

1:56.6

And he basically said, listen, listen, my man.

2:00.4

Every king's time comes to an end and someone else takes their throne.

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