eliminating myth in Koush Nameh

One of the best and most important foundations of myth is the epic that is based on the clash and confrontation of two adversaries. Myth in its essence is related to paradise and but the epic, as a myth child, has a terrestrial and physical approach. In fact, the terrestrial process of mythological symbols creates the mechanism of epic stories, so that confrontation between gods and anti-gods, which is in nature epical, leads to the confrontation of relatives and great and ritual heroes with harmful and anti-heroic forces. Most of the Persian epic poems have a mythological infrastructure and traces of mythological characters and foundations can clearly be found in them. In these poems, Iran Shah ebne Abelkheir's Koush Nameh, written at the beginning of the 6th century AH is an exception, because unlike other Persian epics, it attempts to ‘demythologize’ the myth of the epic. In this article, three ways of the demythologizing in the poem of Koush Nameh has been introduced which include: 1) rationalizing the mythological events and narratives, 2) mentioning religious and historical figures along with mythological characters; and 3) the absence of some mythical and heroic myths common in mythical epics. In this study, the authors intend to show the mythological stories and motives that has been demythologize in Koush Nameh, in comparison with other epical poems.