"...that the soul can reach."
So says Sologak in this blog entry on the soul as a bird in Persian literature. Read through it to find out such things as this:
The Persian word for falcon is baz, which is also a pun because baz means "come back." Thus the falcon in Conference of the Birds represents the return of the soul, which may fight the service of the Divine but must eventually come back to it.
The Conference of the Birds is 9,000 lines long.
There are seven stages or "valleys" of searching for the Divine in Sufi belief.
The word "simurgh" stands both for a single mythical bird and for 30 (si) birds (murgh) in Farsi.
What else can you discover through this reading?
[Image of the simurgh is via this link at Muslim Heritage.]
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