Bird Parliament (Manṭiq al-Ṭayr)
Farid ad-Din Attar's c. 1177 Manṭiq al-Ṭayr — Sufi allegory in which thirty birds traverse seven valleys seeking the Simurgh and discover that the Simurgh (sī murgh, 'thirty birds') is themselves. Edward FitzGerald's 1889 verse adaptation.
Source context· Persian stream · Ancient Persian cultural impulse
- Stream
- Persian
- Cultural impulse
- Ancient Persian (2nd post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 1177 CE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Bird Parliament
The soul's graduated quest through veils of self toward annihilation in the divine — enacted as collective bird-pilgrimage to the Simorgh
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