نوع مقاله : ترویجی
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بخش زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشکدۀ ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه شهید باهنر کرمان، کرمان، ایران
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
This article, drawing on Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms, examines astrological beliefs in Pliny’s Natural History and three Persian ʿajāʾib works: Hamadānī’s ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt, Qazwīnī’s ʿAjāʾib al-makhlūqāt, and Dunaysarī’s Nawādir al-tabādur. It asks whether these texts reveal a shared mythic mode of understanding the heavens and their influence on the material world as expressed in judicial astrology. Using a descriptive-analytical and comparative approach grounded in the American school of comparative literature, the study analyzes their cosmological structures and astronomical classifications through Cassirer’s theory of mythic cognition. The findings show that in both traditions the heavens are understood as an “ordering totality,” whose spheres and stars are active forces shaping material life, human destiny, temperaments, climates, and even moral qualities. In the ʿajāʾib texts, this logic appears in the form of astrological tables based on the influence of the seven planets and the zodiacal signs on climates, human organs, professions, animals, and moral traits. Pliny, although he criticizes individual horoscopy and certain astronomical superstitions, nevertheless acknowledges the general influence of the heavenly spheres and of the moon and the sun in the form of astrological rulings concerning the human body, plants, animals, and terrestrial life as a whole. According to Cassirer’s perspective, it can be concluded that, at a deeper level, both traditions embody a shared mode of mythic cognition in which the heavens function as a sacred space that orders and structures the material world.
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