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Myths in throughout of world, have many similarity together, therefore we can clarify all myths in some sample. There are very festival which contains myth. KUSE, a celebration that carried out before NOOROZ in Persian, has a various form, that ARUS GULEY- one of the Fertilization Festivals of Guilan is one of them. This paper is an attempt to descript the story of ARUS GULEY, ISIS, (the Egypt myth), PERSEPHONE, (the Greek myth), and to say that the Guilanian celebration has very sings to verify similarity with them, thus it is appropriate to serious study. This article contain several segments: introduction of the Egypt and Greek myth, description of tow narrative of ARUS GULEY, semiology of these narratives, and the comparison SIYAVASH and RAPITHVIN with ARUS GULEY is another part of this article.

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Tragedy, in its original Greek format, was in the form of a play to be performed on the stage. Aristotle was among the first people to argue about tragedy in a precise and technical way in the book called “poetry technique” and considered it as a type of poetry so that it is an imitation of people’s conduct and represents them better than the way they are. Moreover, Aristotle gave an adequate explanation for tragedy performance style, scene features, and actors.

Some tragedies were created in Ancient Rome with a purpose rather than play on the stage. Therefore, in Medieval and the Renaissance, the element of being dramatic, was not considered as the main factor regarding the study of tragic artwork. Moreover, in contemporary era, the features of tragedy is searchable in novels and poetry.Shahname, written by Ferdowsi, an epic poetry, consists of some tales that can be taken into account as tragedy. A heroic story which ends in catastrophe, engages the human mind with philosophical subjects, brings leniency to the heart and purifies the soul. 

The authors intend to search for the key elements of Greek tragedy in two tragic stories, Shahname by Ferdowsi, Siyavash and Foroud.  The results of the study indicates that these two stories are not fine examples of Greek tragedy and the main factor for differentiation is the narrative style of Shahname which does not match Greek tragedy

 

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The pureness and righteousness of Siyavash – the mythological protagonist in Firdausi's Book of Kings – that were trialed by his passing across fire, took root in the depth of Iranian people's believes and ideas. In the chivalric romance of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, that has a high status in English and European literatures, Gawain too, as one of the purest knights of king Arthur, after being successful in passing a series of trials – that like Siyavash's trial had a supernatural nature – proves his personal virtues. Through an integration of the structuralist theories of Claude Levi Strauss and Northrop Frye, this research intends to provide a critical framework to study the form and content of these two stories in order to determine their similarities. Here "similarities" refers to the archetypes and mini-myths that have been stated in the narrative plot of the romance of the two stories in the dual contrast of nature versus culture. On the ground of this basic dual contrast the two protagonists pass their "intrinsic" and " "superficial" archetypal trials to prove their righteousness. Moreover, the two stories restate the two basic archetypes: Death and Rebirth, as well as the Terrible Mother.