Investigation in Human-Scorpio Myth and its Relation to Death and Life in Jiroft Civilization

Myths have a long history and root in native and ethnic cultures of each region and are linked to stories and legends. The human-scorpion myth, which is engraved on the pottery`s of Jiroft civilization, has a great deal of semantic complexity and carries different meanings in different instances with different positions. Reaching clear and conclusive results in this field requires the recollection of the clay tablets discovered during Jiroft civilization. In order to reach to conclusive results, visual and semantic analysis are required. By examining this field and looking through the human-scorpion motifs on Jiroftian pots, there is a clear link between the written literature of this period and the themes presented on the dishes. There is an obvious linkage between the context of these stories and schemes recognizable. The semantic relationship between human-scorpion images and death and life notions on one hand, and Gilgamesh’s story and Etna’s story on the others, became clear where it indicates the direct semantic connection between this myth and life and death notions. This study is conducted to investigate the duality between life and death (immortality and diminution) as pure notions in accordance to this mythical role characterized in above mentioned stories. The research method in this study is descriptive-analytical and using library resources.