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The purpose of this paper is made using approach iconology to decode the symbolism associated with the water element and archery in the story of Rostam and Esfandiar. Tales Ferdowsi, Esfandiar invulnerable, but Rustam with using the help of Phoenix realize the esfandiar weakness and with arrow shooting kills him. In Iranian mythology, archery is the important task of rainy gods and Appear that the action by rustam refer to the popular mythological concepts in this field. Since mythological forms or archetypes in the context of creative imagination, appear in the narrative epic, As a result, ideas and abstract images of epic narratives can find a symbolic way and The access to the deep meanings behind them it will not be possible except through decoding symbolic elements. The iconology approach is the artistic studies to identify the repeated images of cultural continuity and follow it looks in the picture and the text. The problem described in this article is to identify a symbolic link the archery with the emphasizing the element of water. The research is descriptive – analytical, data collected through the library and images collected through the library and cyberspace resources . The results show that the narrative archery as the archetypal suicide frequent in mythological geography of Indo-European peoples, Once again depicting, the conflict between the forces of good and evil in connection with the rituals rainy.
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