Beschreibung
In Persian tradition Mehr or Mithra – not the Roman Mithras – is a sun god and the slayer of enemies but the friend of those who revere him, bestowing life, warmth and light. Mehr also means love and affection. These meanings are the pivot of this story where a man, in search of the meaning of life, makes a journey of the mind in a world outside the material world; first going through darkness, when two child sprites ridicule his understanding of reality, truth and falsity. He continues to the warmth and brightness of the garden of Mithra, through a surreal world: a metaphor for mankind’s search for meaning, perhaps unachievable to the intellect.
The Persian text, in prose with some of the dialogues in verse, is rendered as a separate translation or interpretation in English
Mehrdad Shokoohy is Emeritus Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Greenwich.
Natalie H. Shokoohy is an architectural historian who studied Persian and Urdu at SOAS, the University of London.
