Koke Kouhzad and Shakavand Kouh; Two Stories from a Single Narrative

In Persian epics and generally in all myths and stories, we sometimes face with stories of the similar structure. These similarities may be because of the collective unconscious and the archetype, because they have imitated each other, or an adjective has replaced a name and change it into two or three narratives, or they were two stories from single narrative that over time have been established as two different stories. The research tries to investigate the similar structures of the two stories, and proves that the stories have the same origin. It was approved that "Koke Kouhzad" and "Shakavand Kouh" which are amongst the oldest Persian stories, had been a single narrative that after ages have become two independent stories. The stories are same not only in structure but also in some details.