Transformation of Mithraic Myth of Creation in Iranian-Islamic Mysticism (Based on Rumi's Poems)

One of the main contexts for the reproduction of myths is cultural-belief schools, the schools which are based on religion and modern culture. In these new cultural schools, the reproduction of the myth is sometimes conscious and sometimes unconscious; it is sometimes directly and sometimes by alteration and in various forms that take shelter in the deeper layers of modern culture in order to survive. By using comparative-analytical method, the present research tries to show how Mithraic myth of creation is transformed and reproduced in Iranian-Islamic mysticism. It seems that Mithraic myth of creation has manifested in Iranian-Islamic mysticism through the hidden cultural layers and continues its own life in the new form of killing ‘cow of body’ and ‘cow of soul’.