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an old painting with people sitting on the floor

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an artistic painting of a bird flying over a cliff face with clouds and flowers on it

There is a commonality between Simorgh, the supernatural flying creature, and saffron, Iran’s enchanting flower. According to lore, Simorgh has existed since ancient times and so has saffron, as documented in historical records. Legend has it that, every 100 years, Simorgh plunges herself into flames and emerges a resurrected creature. In the same way, the mother saffron corm dramatically transforms itself into multiple daughter corms, from which purple flowers exponentially blossom the next…

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an image of a painting with people on horses and men riding through the grass, surrounded by trees

‘Sad'i and the Youth of Kashgar’ was created in 1486 by Kamal ud-Din Behzad in Timurid Period style. Find more prominent pieces of miniature at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

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