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In Tales of the Peries, we are introduced to an immense serpent that leads the epic hero Melech Mohammed to a wise sage. This immense serpent has been plagued by the yellow scorpion. What would this conflict have meant to someone with a background in Persian mythology?

“Even before the Sumerian legends we can find vases with a gigantic snake winding over the whole universe, or over the sun, moon and stars. The snake can also be found below a growing plant or above the belly of a pregnant woman. The snake is thus seen as a symbol of energy and life. In some of the very earliest of figurine artifacts which have been found we havethe fecund goddess with large belly and pendulous breasts, all of which are indicating fertility connotations. Almost always accompanying these figurines, either on the figurine itself or on associated material, we find the spiral. The spiral is one of the most widespread of the symbols of the goddess.”