Keywords:
Hybrids, composite beings, aniconism
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Abstract
What is the origin and functionality of hybrid creatures in pre-Islamic Iran if the Iranian religious scene has traditionally been considered aniconic. The imagery of the 4th and 3rd millennium BC responds to a common substratum that explains the survival of certain mythical archetypes and the cognitive process, allowing certain analogies between the Bonze Age and the Sassanid period.
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