Rustam Kills The White Div Rug

دیو سپید lit.

Rustam kills the white div rug.

He kills the white div folio 124 from a shah nama book of kings of firdausi persian about 934 1020 cleveland. Provenance henry walters baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown. Ink opaque watercolor silver and gold on paper. He kills the white dîv the new york public library digital collections.

Rustam slaying the white div outside a cave. Rustam kills the white div devil the great sages mourn the death of iskandar. Walters art museum 1931 by bequest. In the shahnameh rostam and his.

However the roots of the narrative date much earlier to the seventh century. Completing this last of seven trials rustam uses the white div s blood to cure the iranian king kay kavus of his blindness. Rustam kills the white div folio from a shahnama book of kings author. Illustrated leaf from a manuscript of firdausi s shahnama mughal late 16th century note.

Nearby is rustam s horse. Description on this folio from walters manuscript w 602 rustam kills the white div the seventh feat. The mobads question hurmuzd and receive answers. رستم is a legendary hero in persian mythology the son of zāl and rudaba whose life and work was immortalized by the 10th century persian poet ferdowsi in the shahnameh or epic of kings which contains pre islamic iranian folklore and history.

He possesses great physical strength and is skilled in sorcery and necromancy he destroys the army of kay kavus by conjuring a dark storm of hail boulders and tree trunks using his magical skills. While the mughal prvenance is obvious i have to note the cave the blue bacground rocks and the gold sky with the two tone cloud swirls. The legendary hero rustam identified by his tiger skin clothing kills the savage chief of the demons the white div in an immense cave as other demons watch from above. Iskandar kills the abyssinian monster.

He rustam s seventh course. Abu l qasim firdausi iranian 935 1020 date. Spencer collection the new york public library. Scene from the shahnameh.

White demon is the chieftain of the divs demons of mazandaran he is a huge being. Sam goes to fight mihrab. Attributed to northwestern iran or baghdad. In the persian epic of shahnameh div e sepid persian.