The Study of Primary Religions and Social Systems in the

"The slave of merchant" is a tale in book two of Marzban Nameh. The protagonist of the tale is a slave who is commanded by his master to go on a business journey. During this journey he confronts many perilous events but each time he is saved because of his acumen power. From one side, the slave is the representation of a fabulous face of a myth, Adonis and is a symbol of the god of nature who dies and revives for the sake of his servants and the hero of an exogamy social system who has been far from his homeland and becomes the king of a foreign land on the other side.