The Myth of the Sun in the Persian Poetry

Archetypal criticism of the Persian poetry is among the issues less paid attention to. C. G. Yung believed that myths have an active in the depths of the human subconscious. These myths have an efficient role in literature and poetry. On the condition of accepting the Canadian critic, Northrop Frye’s exaggerated belief that myth and poetry are the same, one can notice the importance and the relation between the words and myths without needing to reflect so closely on what the previous artists and masters have said. Following the fact that myth is the basis of the imagery in the Persian poetry, this paper tries to study, in the Persian poetry, the motifs of the myth of the sun, the old god of the primitive man.