Another Analysis of the Composition of "Fairy Snake" in A Verse from Sanayi’s Hadigheh Using Myths and Folk Tales

"Fairy Snake" is a peculiar expression that has been used by Sanayi Ghaznavi and Khaghani-e Shervani among other Persian poets. They have likened beautiful and disloyal lovers to it. The exegetes and commentators of the poems of Sanayi Ghaznavi and Khaghani-e Shervani have not yet given the correct meaning to and a true concept about this expression and composition, thus being confused about its analysis. According to the author, the combination of fairy with snake showed a mythical and legendary fate because by examining and studying the myths and legends, it could be said that the fate of the fairy as Goddess of debauch and fertility and that of the snake as a mysterious animal were caused by their very natures attributed to the moon, their correlation with debauch and fertility, and their connection with water, as well as magic and witches from the earliest times. This relationship, which continued after the Zoroastrian Religion and Zoroaster's religious reform caused the creation of a mythological-legendary expression called the "Fairy Snake" in the form of one of the mixed myths of transformation, which is a symbol of both debauch and devil. Sanayi Ghaznavi likened the beautiful and disloyal lovers to that strange and hybrid creature.