Yadegar Zariran Ritual Oath Footprint in Shahname A Research on a Verse of Rostam and Esfandiar Story))

By investigating the general behavior of the ancient human being, we face a wonder that an action is considered holy if only it is related to something beyond human and mortal features and that is why such holy actions become immortal, timeless, and full of life. So in the conscience of ancient people, such actions are considered to be holy and they are reminders of an eternal deed that is separated from the mortal historical time and attached to a timeless immortal juncture. Therefore, the value of human actions depends on how much they are related to that first eternal deed. Oath is a ritual deed in the eternal memory of humankind which is turned into an old example. Being faithful to covenant has a long precedent in immaterial, spiritual, mankind history and it refers to that day in which God made a covenant with man, a pledge that put eternal fidelity chain around the human neck. An oath or pledge is a ritual that is used to prove a claim or reject an accusation or accept an obligation in the future that requires a ritual ceremony to be fulfilled. According to that, we can consider ritual ceremony as special and organized acts and words that originate from the eternal and transcendental memory of mankind. These actions are to explain the religious feelings, and because of their antiquity, in most cases, they are engaged with epic, myth, and traditions of a society. The result of this research which is a descriptive-library text analysis method with confrontational and deductive techniques shows that there is a similar example of olden Yadegar Zariran text ritual oath in Shahname (the new era of Persian literature).