The Foundations of the Ancient and Mythological Folklore of Ilam

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This study is intended to the representation of the role of the Mythology of ancient beliefs in ethnic – Local and cited of some application examples in current life, and intended to answer the question that how ancient myths and beliefs can create ethnic and national identity. This research trying to determine the role of the mythology and ancient beliefs between the Iranian people. After the investigation it was found that myths and ancient beliefs with creating a bridge between glorious past and ideal future, consolidating groups of people in this idea that who belongs to the nation and the whole unit called the shared future. The subject of this article is to further examine the rich cultural and mythological beliefs of ancient Iranians. After the whole expression of the mythology associated with popular culture, expression evokes ancient myths and folk beliefs of the people of Ilam to the representation of mythology and folk beliefs are related to universe to how much the modern era is still standing today, this research, furthermore, intended to find that how official mythology and ancient beliefs convert to developed and grown ones

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