Persian & Arabian

Tahmineh

She hid nothing from her son. What she hid was her son.

6 chapters on the figure behind the card, researched in the Persian & Arabian mythology sources and reviewed before publication. See Tahmineh’s card →

1. The Door at Samangan A door opens at midnight, and the king's daughter is behind it.
2. The Armband He marries her properly, leaves a token, and mentions it to nobody.
3. What She Told Her Son She tells him everything about his father, and sets two conditions.
4. Lips That Smell of Milk Three lines, reported secondhand, and the poem will not say if she meant them.
5. The One Man Who Could Have Told Him She sends a guide who can recognise Rostam. Rostam kills him in the dark.
6. The Scene the Copyists Could Not Leave Alone The one passage in the story that later hands kept rewriting.

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