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Based on the sponsor life story a literary and mythical text was
written. Then it was translated to Avestaei and Pahlavi transcripts by
Professor Emrahim Mirzaie Nazer. In the life story the main and
important happenings of the sponsors' life have been expressed in an
allegorical and allusive language.
Summary of the mythical life story:
There was a hidden transcendental love between two lovers which was not
expressed for 2400 years and by no means was similar to mundane
ephemeral loves. In this love the body was considered as annihilation
and destruction. The lovers imagined each other in form of a sculpture
and had raised a kind of transcendental love in their minds. The Helia
sculpture is symbol of a suffering love. With a very sadly face, Helia
is looking toward the ground as sign of a mundane love and at the same
time her hands have raised toward the sky, as sign of a transcendental
love. She has a shawl in her hands and two flowers on her hair which
are signs of beloved.
The whole sculpture is the dawning sign of the two lovers creation. In
their creation dawn, the zephyr has been breezing like a nightly lyric
for Helia's repose, and the water has been flowing as the beauty
fountain and the ground soil was the place, where Helia has been
walking on it gracefully. Since the first visiting moment of her
beloved (beloved aged) they became all eyes on each other for 2400
years and without saying any word they sang all mundane loves for each
other through their romantic everlasting look; and as their love has
been a transcendental one so there is not any sign of their true love
in what they were singing for each other.
There was a single love flower on Helia's hair and when the beloved
decides to join and unite with Helia through the transcendental
incandescence of the sun, some signs of uniting lover and beloved is
being created and remained; the first sign is the shawl of the beloved
and the other is a flower exactly like the one that Helia had on her
hair; the two flowers are signs of lover and beloved. Helia takes the
shawl in her hands to show it to the universe and at the same moment
the time freezes and Helia converts to a sculpture as a symbol of a
transcendental love between two lovers.
The myth of Helia
Creation came into existence by the Creator. A hirrible breath
breathed a start into the life of time, and God, the Compassionate,
created the light bright of sun out of darkness. The sun saw seven
heavens around her and God, the Almighty, named her mother sun, The
mother of the seven heavens. The mother sun had the Master Creators
hand by her and gave birth to the four elements out of the endless root
of the sky. The wind was whirled to sing, the water was set on the run,
the fire was made to wind, the soil was roused to movement and the
plants were grown. She shed her light on the four heavenly elements and
put them under her command. The four elements praised the sun and the
sun was the mother of the seven heavens. The mother sun let out a shine
and created the beautiful figure of a lady named Helia. The wind was a
hymn, a lullaby to lull the heavenly lady to sleep. The water ran a
rolling spring for lady Helia. And the soil was blessed to have the
lady on it. The fire turned a whirl as deep as the universe for the
ladys inner warmth when she comes down to earth. The plants bloomed a
single flower for it to sit on Helias hair. Helia suddenly got excited.
The sun said to her, "Darling! Now its time you fell in love and you
will harbor the desiring and trembling hearts on earth". Helias eyes
began to shine, she said nothing, only sighed, an (aah), and this was
the first cry of love. Helia heard this from inside. At that moment
lady Helia stepped on earth. The fire bestowed her the tribute of the
warmth of love. The wind sang the loveliest song. The water eased down
the crazy and high-as-sky waves which had frightened all the creatures.
Red water lilies bloomed and made a carpet to caress the feet of the
heavenly lady. An old-aged man approached from so a far. Helia and the
man came face to face. For 3000 years face to face, looking each other
in the eyes. Then Helia opened up and Said, "I love you". The mans
heart started to shiver and replied,"I love you too". The silence came
down to earth and ruled the world all over. The two alone, only talked
their eyes, Helia and the old mans eyes for 24000 years, the two sang
in each others eyes the song of all the love ever to be created in the
hearts of all the humans on the earth. But there was no hint of their
love in those songs. The old-aged realized their love is heavenly
unlike the mundane love. In silence he said to himself, "Its lovely
that Helia I and become whole-hearted and join together in a heavenly
love". Then the old-aged whose eyes echoed a sigh twisted around the
root of his manly burnt voice said with his eyes to Helia, "I want to
reach into the depth of your heart. Because our love is just a drop of
the ever deep ocean of love, in it the body is ruined to nothing. From
now on, only your figure represents my love, and your solitude has the
sing of my love deep inside". The old-aged reached inside Helias heart
with the glim of sun. A deep and heavy sigh took over all the
creatures, quaked the four elements, and the earths silence broke. The
cry of Helias broken heart quaked the seven heavens. The flames of fire
burnt the sky. The most tremendous waves reached the sky and a storm
flooded the whole universe. The soil broke apart and desert came out of
it. Suddenly Helia ruled silence. In the silence of times, there was
love-sickness created. A turban was left from the old-aged resting on
the red water lilies. A beautiful flower from Helias hairclip lay on
the turban flaunting. Helia put the flower on the margin of the curl of
her hair. The two flowers were together, two signs of the same sign,
the sign of a love. The lady took the turban to show it to all the
creatures. And at that time the time stopped. Yes, as it is, lady Helia
is standing on the earth, sad, filled with love pain, and looking down,
taking the turban with her fingers, with her one hand toward the sky
and her other hand on her heart, and two flowers on her hair, yes she
is at the onset of creation, the myth of two lovers.
Myth Author: M.R.Niksirat
Helia Myth in Avesta Language
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