نگاهي ديگر به داستان گم شدن تازيانه ي بهرام

A New Look at Bahram fs Scourge

Totem ism as a kind of believing in souls, was accounted for by primitive man as a way to communicate with super nature. This kind of belief has had a wide reflection in epic works and it can be studied in a way to shed light on better recognition of the Old Iranian mythology. Among these, the story of the missing of Bahramʹs scourge in Shahnameh is a remarkable and significant story. Accordingly, the researcher believes that scourge, which was used as a fighting tool in wars and a punishing tools in courts, has had a special holiness for old Iranian people. In this article, the researcher tries to study the missing of the Bahramʹs scourge from the view point of totemism and shows that the scourge was as a part of Bahramʹs belief and he risked to support his beliefs.