RUG THE PRESERVER OF WILD GOAT FIGURE SINCE THE ANCIENT TIMES

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Journal: NEGAREH Year:2012 | Volume:7 | Issue:21 Page(s): 55-67

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RUG THE PRESERVER OF WILD GOAT FIGURE SINCE THE ANCIENT TIMES

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AFZALTOUSI EFFATOLSADAT | Issue Writer Certificate

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WILD GOATQ2

ANCIENTQ2

CIVILIZATIONQ2

CARPETQ2

NOMADS OF IRANQ2

Abstract

The importance of animal figure is dramatic in Iranian art since ANCIENT time. Animal figures were sometimes used as symbols of agriculture and nutrition and also as symbols of gods, kingdoms and elements of universe. Among animal figures, WILD GOAT figure has a great importance. In ANCIENT times this figure was symbol of seeking rain and blessing rather than just being a decorative figure.After Sassanid era and in Islamic age WILD GOAT figure lost its importance and was mainly preserved in rural and nomadic hand-woven due to fundamental changes in beliefs as well as artistic and cultural attitudes.In this essay we tend to seek the reasons behind perseverance and persistence of WILD GOAT figure in Iranian art and its meaning by investigating the available figures from prehistory until today, and comparing them to each other through an analytic way.It seems that WILD GOAT figure’s formation on stones was due to ANCIENT peoples beliefs and costumes which considered this figure as a symbol of rain, fertility and abundance. This figure was passed from each generation to next in ANCIENT art and was protected from changes and damages of the time through nomadic hand-woven.The correlation between this figure and life, livelihood, dreams of the weaver and the traditional way of its transmission within centuries is the cause of its persistence among today’s nomadic weavings.Today’s weaver is a preserver of this figure without knowing its exact meaning and that’s how the rug contains an ANCIENT figure and desire.

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