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Afshin
Bagheri
Mašiyāne is
the
name
of
the
first
woman
in
the
culture
of
the
Ancient
Persia,
with
Eve
being
its
equivalent
in
Semitic
mythologies.
Having
survived
the
antique
civilizations,
statues
and
high
reliefs
and
sculptures
of
women
are
connected
to
sanctity
of
woman
in
the
world’s
mythologies
and
in
the
role
of
the
goddesses
of
life
and
fertility.
The
Stone
Age
man
realized
a
strong
connection
between
the
fertility
of
women
and
the
fecundity
of
earth
and
hence,
goddesses
began
to
emerge
in
the
mythologies
of
various
lands,
particularly
at
the
beginning
of
the
Neolithic
Age
and
thus,
worships
for
the
goddess
of
fertility
was
created.
It
is
highly
likely
that
at
least
at
the
beginning
of
the
Neolithic
Age,
matriarchy
was
at
the
core
of
social
and
economic
lives
of
Iranian
people.
With
the
passage
of
centuries
and
millenniums
and
many
social
alterations
and
since
the
second
half
of
the
second
millennium
B.C.,
the
society
and
beliefs
have
gone
through
a
string
of
change,
and
with
the
prevalence
of
the
patriarchal
power
of
Semitic
and
Aryan
tribes,
conditions
were
prepared
for
the
matriarchal
societies
to
turn
into
patriarchal
ones.
The
mythical
figure,
Mašiyāne,
is
formed
in
an
era,
in
which
matriarchy
is
replaced
by
patriarchy
and
the
political
and
social
powers
are
in
the
hands
of
men;
the
patriarchal
society
is
formed
and
the
right
to
judge
and
lead
is
possessed
by
men.
The
presented
collection
is a
continuation
of
the
painter’s
explorations
to
express
the
Persian
myths,
the
central
point
of
which
is,
this
time,
on
women’s
place
in
mythologies
that
eventually
will
result
in
closer
looks
at
the
art
works
and
a
better
perception
of
women’s
status
in
the
contemporary
society.
This
collection
has
illustrated
a
human
world
with
mysterious
elements,
in
which
power
has
seemingly
abandoned
the
women;
the
very
power,
that,
as a
result
of
the
changes
in
the
environmental
conditions
in
human
lives,
women
are
being
deprived
of
it
or
are
escaping
from
it
and
they
are
only
worryingly
staring
at
this
destiny
of
solitude.
Maryam
Taheri
Raad
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