Comments on: The Story of the Samosa http://rachelshadoan.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:43:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rachel Shadoan http://rachelshadoan.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/#comment-127 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:18:19 +0000 http://rachelshadoan.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/#comment-127 Thank you so much for the correction, Azita! I’ll fix the story the first chance I get. Would you be interested in helping me correct wikipedia, so the mistake doesn’t propagate?

]]> By: Azita http://rachelshadoan.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/#comment-126 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:53:14 +0000 http://rachelshadoan.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/#comment-126 Dear Rachel
Before everything I have to excuse for my bad English .
I am Iranian and ” Simurgh ” is a myth in our ancient history . Your discribtion in this beautiful story about Simurgh actully is about ” Shir-daal ” that means ” lion-eagle ” . This is a comonly mistake that most of the people make ( also wikipedia ) . There are so many refernces that discribe the diferences between them in Farsi , our own language . I found these about Simurgh in English .

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=8044

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/world/mideast/mi-homa.htm

As you see ,shir-dal which you call it gryphon or hyppogryph , has eagle head and teeth that makes us to see it as a dog (although sometimes without wings ) In Persepolis you can see so many shir-daals . But Simorgh is compeletely a ” bird ” which has beautiful wings and long tail . It is so similar to phoenix . In our ancient religion and stories and poems Simorgh is very wise and is able to speak and even sometimes has a human face but with a bird body .
It is not hyppogriph or gryphon or …. It is just a very beautiful wise bird .
please search in google images for their names . Wikipedia has made wrong about it .

]]> By: aliciadudek http://rachelshadoan.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/#comment-79 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:27:51 +0000 http://rachelshadoan.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/the-story-of-the-samosa/#comment-79 This story is lovely. I tried to wait until I could hear it in performance but I couldn’t. I thought I would just take a peek and before I knew it I was so enthralled that I read the whole thing. I must say as far as stories go, its at least as good as Battlestar Galactica… which you know is my highest form of story telling compliment. WELL DONE RACHEL!

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