Folk beliefs of the moon in popular culture and local poetry of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad provinces

Abstract

The purpose of this research is the folk beliefs of the moon in the local poetry of the people of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad provinces. Folk literature basically originates from the culture of a people or a group, which is transmitted from one generation to another, often orally or from breast to breast, and in this way, their beliefs, customs, morals, thoughts, and their lives in general throughout history are transmitted from generation to generation. It transmits the dimensions; So that the culture of a people and a nation is known and remains. The purpose of this article is to investigate the moon in folk literature, which was done in a descriptive-analytical and library method. The result of the research shows that celestial objects and especially the moon have been widely included in folk literature and since they believed that celestial objects have an effect on human life, that is why these objects are included in folk culture with a high frequency. People have entered and Persian poets and writers have made different themes out of it. Beliefs about the relationship between the eclipse of the moon and the dragon, dyeing the moon, the moon and linen, the moon and the dog, the moon and Gemini, etc. In the folk beliefs of the moon in the local poetry of the people of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad provinces, wherever the word moon appears, it is an artistic simile to the beloved's face, which is similar to the beauty of the moon in the sky, and the people of this land believe that the beauty of the moon is indescribable and immortal.