Iconography of the Maiden of Light and Two electae in Manichaean Art (MIK III 6251, Asian Art Museum Berlin)

Fathipour Dehkordi, Azade; Sangari, Esmaeil; Shokri-Foumeshi, Mohammad; Kasiri, Masoud

doi:10.30465/shc.2023.45242.2459

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

¹ phd student of history of Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran

² Associate professor of Department of History, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan. Isfahan, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor of University of Religions and Denominations, qom, iran

⁴ Assistant Professor of history of Iran in Islamic period, isfahan, iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/shc.2023.45242.2459

Abstract

The present study tries to analyze one of the Manichaean silk paintings from the Turfan collection in the Asian Art Museum of Berlin representing with the motif of the Maiden of Light, the famous goddess who leads the lights to their original land, the Paradise of Light. She causes to be released the lights (salvation of lights) imprisoned in plants and trees. In this way, the study attempts to see her functions in analogy to Anahita and Ishtar. The hypothesis of this research, which is suggested here for the first time, is based on this comparison. Here, we will try to compare the similarities of these three goddesses by analyzing the human motifs in the silk painting of the Maiden of Light and the two electae and to show how much Mani, the Babylonian and Iranian, could have been inspired sc. influenced by the myths of his own land.

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Social history

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Iconography of the Maiden of Light and Two electae in Manichaean Art (MIK III 6251, Asian Art Museum Berlin)

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Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 27
October 2024
Pages 265-292

Iconography of the Maiden of Light and Two electae in Manichaean Art (MIK III 6251, Asian Art Museum Berlin)

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Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 27October 2024Pages 265-292

Volume 14, Issue 1 - Serial Number 27
October 2024
Pages 265-292