The contrast between number three and seven in Kurdish legends and tales

Rostami Nejadan, Diana; Azizifar, Amirabbas

doi:10.22103/jis.2025.24613.2687

The contrast between number three and seven in Kurdish legends and tales

Document Type : Scientific

Authors

¹ PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

10.22103/jis.2025.24613.2687

Abstract

Purpose: The researchers based on ‘Present of Mozaffari’ by Oskar Mann, Kurdish legends and maxims of Darwishian, Kurdish legends of Rodenko, Sicilian Kurdish legends, the ancient Kurdish stories of Lescot Roger and the Kurdish legends and myths of Mansouri Moghadam investigated and analyzed the numbers three and seven in the content of Kurdish stories and legends.
Method and Research: This research, done in a descriptive-analytical-documentary method based on library studies.
Findings and Conclusions: As it can be seen, there is a secret and tight connection between numbers and the world, and behind these quantitative numbers, there is a biological and world-believing quality. Among these numbers, the numbers three and seven are the most frequent numbers, each of which implies a specific concept and belief., The results showed that numbers have symbolic importance both in the themes of the stories and in their narrative structure; In other words, the symbolic meaning of simultaneous numbers is completed based on the study of the theme and the structure of the stories. Some of the themes of the number three and seven are in the structure of legends, and some others are in the concepts and themes of legends, and there is a kind of proportionality between these two, that is, the content and structure of triple and seven in legends.

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