{"id":29237,"date":"2025-01-26T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T09:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/?p=29237"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:40:33","slug":"rostam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/rostam\/","title":{"rendered":"rostam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Rostam, or Rostam of Sistan, or Rostam of the Tales, is the most renowned mythical figure in the Shahnameh and consequently, the most important mythical figure in Persian literature. He is the son of Zal and Rudabeh<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After the Shahnameh, Rustom is featured in the Faramarznameh (the story of Faramarz, the son of Rustom), the Banougashspnameh (the story of Banougashsp, the daughter of Rustom), the Jahangirnameh (the story of Jahangir, the son of Rustom), and the Borzunameh (the story of Borzu, the son of Sohrab, and the grandson of Rustom)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>\u00a0The most important events and actions of Rostam in the Shahnameh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Crossing the seven trials<br \/>\nBattle with Sohrab<br \/>\nBattle with Esfandiar<br \/>\nConquest of the fortress of Spandkuh<br \/>\nBringing Kay Kavus from the Alborz mountain<br \/>\nRescuing Kay Kavoos from the captivity of King Hamavaran<br \/>\nDriving Afrasiyab out of Iran, who had invaded and seized it during the absence of Kavus<br \/>\nRaising Siavash, son of Kavus<br \/>\nKilling Sudabeh, the wife of Kay Kavus, in revenge for Siavash<br \/>\nAvenge Siavash and attack Turan<br \/>\nParticipating in the battle with the Khagan of China and killing Kamos Kashani and capturing the Khagan of China<br \/>\nKilling Akvan Div<br \/>\nRescuing Bijan, son of Giv, from the pit of Afrasiyab<br \/>\nRaising Bahman, son of Esfandiar<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>The Death of Rostam <\/strong><br \/>\nIn the Shahnameh, the long lifespan of the heroes descended from Sam Yal (the grandfather of Rostam) is mentioned, and similarly, Rostam&#8217;s lifespan is around six hundred years, although he did not die a natural death. He fell into a pit due to the trickery of the king of Kabul and was killed by his half-brother, Shaghad. In this incident, Rostam&#8217;s other brother, named Zohar, and Rakhsh were also killed. Throughout his life, Rostam was contemporaneous with many kings, including Manouchehr, Nozar, Zou, Garshasb, Key qobad, Key Kavous, Key Khosrow, Lohrasb, and Gashtasb, and finally Bahman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n        <!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php -->\r\n        <div data-width=\"100%\" class=\"fotorama gallery galleryid-29237 \" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\"><a href='https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/rostam\/nody-%d8%b9%da%a9%d8%b3-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c-%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%85-%d8%af%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a7%d9%86-1630702344\/'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"9999\" src=\"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nody-\u0639\u06a9\u0633-\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639\u06cc-\u0631\u0633\u062a\u0645-\u062f\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646-1630702344-1000x9999.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1000x9999 size-1000x9999\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href='https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/rostam\/nody-%d8%b9%da%a9%d8%b3-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%82%d8%b9%db%8c-%d8%b1%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%85-%d8%b2%d8%a7%d9%84-1633613561\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"9999\" src=\"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nody-\u0639\u06a9\u0633-\u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639\u06cc-\u0631\u0633\u062a\u0645-\u0632\u0627\u0644-1633613561-1000x9999.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1000x9999 size-1000x9999\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href='https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/rostam\/rostam_deev_zendan_karimkhan\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"9999\" src=\"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Rostam_deev_zendan_karimkhan-1000x9999.jpg\" class=\"attachment-1000x9999 size-1000x9999\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n        <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the most important mythical figure in Persian literature<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[724,687],"tags":[945,947,946],"class_list":["post-29237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-guide","category-uncategorized","tag-945","tag-947","tag-946"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29248,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29237\/revisions\/29248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zhiva-parvaz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}