Analysis of the archetype of the miraculous childhood journey of the hero in the myth of Zal Joseph Campbell Pattern Pattern

Influenced by the views of Jung and Freud, Joseph Campbell presented the archetype of the hero's journey to show that the hero's journey in the narrative-epic stories of different nations usually follows a fixed pattern. According to him, this model consists of three stages of separation, arrival and return, which is called the nucleus of a single myth. The aim of the present study is to determine the extent of Zal's miraculous childhood journey in Ferdowsi Shahnameh with this model. To achieve this goal, descriptive-analytical method and based on library sources, archetypes of Zal myth were studied with a focus on the theory of the hero's journey "by Joseph Campbell. The results of this study indicate the adaptation of this journey to the mentioned pattern, Although a small part of Campbell's pattern in this myth has been displaced or does not exist due to the hero's miraculous childhood journey